Google Meet gets real-time live translation capabilities; here’s how it works

Google Meet is getting new live speech translation capabilities, which will be powered by Gemini AI. The company announced these new capabilities during the keynote speech at its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2025. This feature will translate spoken words into a conversation partner’s preferred language in real-time. Google claims that the AI-generated translation will preserve the original speaker’s voice, tone, and expression. During the event, the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, showed a demonstration where an English speaker can be seen communicating with a Spanish speaker, with Meet providing AI-generated English translations that maintained vocal inflexions, and vice versa. To compare, Microsoft Teams introduced a similar AI translation feature in a preview earlier this year.