Google Meet expands real-time translation across 63 languages

Meetings are meant to facilitate communication, but anyone who’s been in one that could have been an email, as the saying goes, knows that’s not always the case. That’s even more true for teams with multilingual members. Now Google Meet has a solution with Gemini-powered speech translation for 63 languages on web and mobile devices.

In a new Workspace blog entry, Google shares that Meet users will be able to turn on speech translation for themselves in their preferred language at any point in a meeting using a dedicated translation control in the meeting toolbar. Google Meet will then automatically detect what language is being spoken and translate it for the user, both audibly and in captions. Google claims this translation takes place in “near real-time.”

The feature is powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, and is designed to work even when there are multiple languages spoken in a meeting or a speaker switches languages. The translation control allows for users to select what languages they understand so that those are not translated.

Real-time speech translation is available for consumers with Google AI Pro and Ultra plans; to those with Google Workspace who have AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access; to organization users through Business Standard/Plus, Enterprise Standard/Plus, and Frontline Plus plans; and to schools through Google AI Pro for Education.

Access technically extends beyond only those specific customers, since anyone can use real-time speech translation in a group meeting hosted by an eligible Google user, or in a one-on-one call if at least one person in it has an eligible plan.

Those who are on base Workspace and Google AI Pro plans will have to keep their meetings to 90 minutes. Speech translation can be used throughout meetings that stretch on for up to eight unfathomable hours for those with AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Ultra plans. Availability gets started today, with access expanding across early November.

Before this, Google Meet could only handle a limited set of language pairs and a single one had to be set for every participant for the entire meeting. There are still a few limitations, including for those using Google Meet hardware. While they will be able to listen to translated speech from remote participants, speech originating from the room with the hardware will not be translated for others.

Real-time translation will similarly not work with live streams, meeting recordings, client-side encrypted meetings, dial-in or third-party interoperability calls, or when using adaptive audio.