Learn about Speech Translation

Important:

• Currently, speech translation is only available on computers. Participants who join through mobile can't use this feature. 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 subscribers
  • Google Workspace Business Plus
  • Google Workspace Enterprise Plus
  • Google Workspace Frontline Plus
  • AI Pro for Education
  • AI Ultra for Business
• 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.

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

1. In a Google Meet meeting, at the bottom right, click Meeting tools Speech translation.
2. Select the language combination that you want to configure for everyone in the meeting.
3. Click Enable translation for everyone.
   • To show that this feature has been enabled, all participants will have the Speech translation badge on the top right of their screen.

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

1. Click the Speech translation badge on the top corner of the screen.
   • Eligible users have the option to navigate to Meeting tools Speech translation.
2. 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 must not be the same as another participant's.

       • For example: If your language settings are in English, the other participant’s language settings must be in Spanish.

   • The language options are predetermined by the combination set by the eligible user.

3. If you didn't update the Language you speak setting, you will need to allow translation. Under the language drop down, click 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 revoke permission to be translated at any time. To revoke permission, at the bottom of the screen, click the More options Settings General Don't translate me.

Part 3: Stop and 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.

1. To stop speech translation for everyone, click Meeting tools Turn off translation for everyone.

   • Or, at the top right, click the Speech translation badge Settings Turn off translation for everyone.

2. To switch to a different pair of languages after you stop Speech Translation, next to the current language combination, click the Down arrow.

   • Select a different language combination.
3. Click 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 more.
• 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.

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