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The Google Translate app is getting... iOS a new feature that allows live translation of conversations directly into the headphones. This allows iPhone users to listen in real timechat spoken language translation in over 70 languages ​​without having to look at the phone screen.

Google officially announced the news, saying that the Live translate with headph functiononewith after earlier beta testing is now starting to appear on the platform as well iOSAccording to Sasha Kapur, product manager for the service Google Translate, this technology is intended to help people communicate more easily in various situations – for example, when traveling or when talking to family or friends who speak a different language.

The principle is quite simple. The user launches the Google Translate app, selects the Live translate mode, and then the Listening option. The phone then listens to the conversation around them and immediately plays the translation to the connected headphones. The feature works with virtually any pair of headphones connected to the iPhone.

Google also says that the technology tries to preserve the intonation, emphasis, and rhythm of each speaker's speech to make the resulting translation sound more natural and make it easier to distinguish who is speaking. Live translation supports more than 70 languages, including English, Spanish, French, and German.ancUzbek, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Arabic or Hindi. The feature is also gradually expanding to other countries, including France.ancie, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

Similar technology is already offered by Apple via the Live Translation feature in your headphones AirPods. However, this only works with selected models, specifically AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2 a AirPods Pro 3. The advantage of Google's solution, on the other hand, is wider compatibility with various types of headphones. Pro This gives iPhone users another way to make it easier to understand foreign languages ​​when traveling or communicating internationally – this time without having to constantly look at the phone’s display. At the time of writing, live translation support was not yet available. According to the relevant Google support document should gradually expand to other countries. So hopefully we'll see it here as soon as possible.

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