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Title: Google Brings AI-Powered Live Translation To Meet

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/1750...

Google is adding AI-powered live translation to Meet, enabling participants
to converse in their native languages while the system automatically
translates in real time with the speaker's original vocal characteristics
intact. Initially launching with English-Spanish translation this week, the
technology processes speech with minimal delay, preserving tone, cadence, and
expressions -- creating an effect similar to professional dubbing but with
the speaker's own voice, the company announced at its developer conference
Tuesday. In some testings, WSJ found occasional limitations: initial
sentences sometimes appear garbled before smoothing out, context-dependent
words like "match" might translate imperfectly (rendered as "fight" in
Spanish), and the slight delay can create confusing crosstalk with multiple
participants. Google plans to extend support to Italian, German, and
Portuguese in the coming weeks. The feature is rolling out to Google AI Pro
and Ultra subscribers now, with enterprise availability planned later this
year. The company says that no meeting data is stored when translation is
active, and conversation audio isn't used to train AI models.

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