Learn about Speech Translation

Important:

Participants who join through Meet hardware can listen to translations, but can't have their speech translated.
This feature is available to:
- Google AI Pro
- Google AI Ultra
- Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus
- Google Workspace Enterprise Standard and Plus
- Google Workspace Frontline Plus
- AI Pro for Education
- AI Expanded Access
This feature isn't available in live streams or recordings.
Speech Translation is a beta feature that is under development and not available to all users. During this phase, users may experience significant changes in quality, availability, and the user interface. Translations will be a few seconds delayed for completeness.
No audio is saved. No models are trained on your voice. Learn more about Google Meet Security & Privacy for users and our Terms of Service.
There's a 90-minute limit on Speech Translation.

Use Speech Translation to communicate with anyone in your meeting, even if you speak a different language. As you talk, Speech Translation automatically translates your speech in real-time, in a voice like yours. Translation is available between English and:

French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Tip: Translation quality and availability improves continuously. Come back later to check if it works better for you.

Control Speech Translation access

Admins with Google Workspace accounts can use this feature. Learn how to turn Speech translation on or off for Meet as an admin.

Important: For all SKUs, the admin setting is on by default. Admins don’t need to take any action to turn the feature on.

When you turn on Speech Translation, it doesn't disable the feature for users. It determines if meetings hosted by users can allow participants to turn the feature on or off during meetings, regardless of their eligibility.
Users with Google AI Pro accounts can choose to turn Speech Translation on or off if the meeting is hosted by another consumer account.

Use Speech Translation with meeting rooms

Meeting room devices only support listening and can't turn on Speech Translation.

Learn how to use Speech Translation

Part 1: An eligible user enables Speech Translation

In a Google Meet meeting, at the bottom right, tap More options Tools Speech translation.
Select the language combination that you want for all participants.
Tap Enable translation for everyone.
- For participants to confirm the feature is active, at the top right, they can find a Speech translation badge .

Part 2: All meeting participants allow & configure their Speech Translation settings

In the top left corner, tap the Speech translation badge .
Select from the drop down menus: Language you speak and Language you prefer to hear.
- To get the best experience with speech translation:
  - Use the same language for your settings.
    - For example: If you speak in English, set both "Language you speak" and "Language you prefer to hear" to English.
  - Your language settings shouldn't be the same as another participant's.
    - For example: If your language settings are in English, the other participant's language settings should be in Spanish.
- The language options depend on the combination set by the eligible user.
If you didn't update the "Language you speak" setting, you need to allow translation. Under the language drop down, tap Allow translation Translate me.
- When you first use Speech Translation, you need to allow your voice to be translated for others to hear.
- You can remove permission to be translated at any time. To remove permission, at the bottom of the screen, tap the Menu Settings General Don't translate me.

Part 3: Stop & change the language combination for a meeting

Important:

To change the language pair, a user must stop the feature for the entire meeting and restart it with another pair.
Only one pair of languages can be used for a meeting. When you change to a different pair of languages, it changes for everyone in the meeting.

To stop speech translation for everyone, tap More options Turn off translation for everyone.
- Or, at the top left, tap the Speech translation badge Settings Turn off translation for everyone.
To switch to a different pair of languages, next to the current language combination, tap the Down arrow.
- Select a different language combination.
Tap Enable translation for everyone.

Learn what to expect from Speech Translation

Translations created in real time have more errors than translations from a recording or text. Errors you may encounter:

Grammatical or translation errors may occur.
Some words may be unintelligible.
Translated speech may have unexpected accents.
The gender of nouns may be incorrect.
Translated voice style may change, especially if different people speak during the meeting.
Translation quality may vary due to poor network connectivity.

Learn how to get the best translation

Wait for the translation symbol at the top of the speaker's tile to disappear before you respond in the meeting.
Rephrase your message if it's unclear or if you suspect translation issues.
For the best translation quality, make sure your network performance is as good as possible. Learn how to improve your Wi-Fi or network performance.
Combine Speech translation with other tools.
- Use captions with translations as a supplementary translation.
- Use the meeting chat to communicate without speech.

Troubleshooting Speech Translation

Here are some reasons why you may not hear a participant translated or speech translation may not work as expected:

The participant didn't agree to have their voice be translated in the meeting. To opt-in, participants can navigate to the Speech translation badge and select Allow Translation.
The participant might be located in a region where the feature is unavailable.
The participant is on an unsupported device, like a phone.
The participant turned on the audio merge.
The participant is under the age of 18.
The host is not on an eligible account.
The host's admin disabled Speech Translation in the admin console, so it's unavailable in the call.

Provide feedback on your experience to help us improve.

Click the Speech translation badge on the top corner of the screen.
Next to How's your experience with speech translation?, select thumbs up or thumbs down .