Google announced Thursday that Live Translate, an AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you listen to real-time translations through headphones, is expanding to iOS and more countries.
With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the US, India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, UK, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the US, India, and Mexico.
This feature essentially turns any headphone into a real-time one-way translation device. Powered by Google’s Gemini AI, the real-time headphone translation experience preserves each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and intonation. This makes it easier to follow conversations and know who is saying what, Google says.
The tech giant suggests that people could use the feature to do things like follow dinnertime conversations with relatives who speak another language or understand train announcements while traveling in another country.
This feature works with all headphones and supports over 70 languages.
Users can access it by opening the Google Translate app, tapping on the ‘Real-time translation’ option, and then plugging in headphones.
The Live Translate expansion comes on the same day that Google announced that it is globally expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, to all languages and locations where AI mode is available. This expansion gives people in more than 200 countries and territories access to features previously only available in the United States and India.
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First launched in July 2025, Search Live allows users to point their phone camera at an object to receive real-time assistance and engage in back-and-forth conversations using the visual context of the camera feed. To use this feature, users need to open the Google app on Android or iOS and tap on the live icon below the search bar.
