Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices

<p><strong><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/speech-translation-in-google-meet-is-now-rolling-out-to-mobile-devices.html">Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices</a></strong></p> I just encountered this feature via a "try this out now" prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked!</p> <p>This is Google's implementation of the ultimate sci-fi translation app, where two people can talk to each other in two separate languages and Meet translates from one to the other and - with a short delay - repeats the text in your preferred language, with a rough imitation of the original speaker's voice.</p> <p>It can only handle English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian at the moment. It's also still very alpha - I ran it successfully between two laptops running web browsers, but then when I tried between an iPhone and an iPad it didn't seem to work. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/translation">translation</a></p>