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What’s It About?
Google Meet can now translate conversations into 63 languages in total, according to CHIP. The system recognizes by itself which language is being spoken at any moment and renders it for the other participants in another language in close to real time. Anyone joining a meeting therefore does not have to settle on one language for the whole group in advance.
Each person switches the translation on for themselves, according to CHIP, and has subtitles displayed in the target language they want. In addition, languages can be stored that you understand anyway and that should therefore not be translated.
Background & Context
According to the CHIP report, the function processes several languages in the same meeting at once. That also applies when someone switches language in the middle of a sentence. In international teams in particular, where mixtures of a native language and English are common, that can make the flow of conversation more natural than a rigid language setting.
On availability, CHIP names the desktop, mobile devices running Android and iOS, and Google Meet hardware. The subtitles that are displayed adapt automatically to the translation, according to the report. There are limitations nonetheless: grammatical errors can occur, and comprehensibility can suffer, above all with strong accents or when several people talk over one another quickly.
What Does This Mean?
- International teams could coordinate more easily, because less time goes on language barriers and follow-up questions.
- The individual control makes it possible to use the translation only when it is needed and to exclude languages you know.
- For important decisions or specialist terms, participants should continue to examine the automatic translation critically, because errors are possible according to CHIP.
Sources
Google Meet erweitert Echtzeit-Übersetzung auf 63 Sprachen (CHIP)
Real-time speech translation in Google Meet expands to 63 languages with automatic language detection (Google Workspace Updates Blog)
Google Meet can now translate 63 languages in real time with zero manual setup (Chrome Unboxed)
KI-Übersetzung in Google Meet (Google Blog)
This article was created with AI and is based on the listed sources as well as the language model’s training data.
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