Google announced on Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to more countries.
With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the U.S., India, and Mexico.
The capability essentially turns any pair of headphones into a real-time, one-way translation device. The real-time headphone translations experience, which leverages Google’s Gemini AI, keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact. This makes it easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what, Google says.
The tech giant suggests that people can use the feature to do things like follow dinnertime conversations with relatives who speak another language, or understand train announcements while traveling in a different country.
The feature works with any pair of headphones and supports more than 70 languages.
Users can access it by opening up the Google Translate app, tapping the “Live Translate” option, and then connecting their headphones.
The Live Translate expansion comes the same day that Google announced that it’s expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and territories will get access to the feature, which was previously only available in the U.S. and India.
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Search Live, which first launched in July 2025, allows users to point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed. To use the feature, users need to open the Google app on Android or iOS and tap the Live icon under the Search bar.