Hear live speech to speech translations with Live translate

Use Live Translate with or without headphones

You can now use Live Translate with or without headphones on your phone or tablet. Make sure that your device is on the latest app version.

List of supported languages:

Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Bengali Bulgarian Burmese (Myanmar) Catalan Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Farsi Finnish French French (Canada) Galician Georgian German

Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish

Portuguese Portuguese (Brazil) Punjabi Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Romanian Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Zulu

To listen to audio from a language you don't understand, connect your headphones to your mobile device and listen to real-time translations in your language.

1. Open the Translate app .
   • If you'd like to use Live translate with headphones on your Android phone or tablet, connect your headphones.
2. At the bottom, tap Live translate .
3. Select your desired Live translation mode and languages.
   • Live translation modes

     • Listening: Connect headphones or hold your phone to your ear to hear real-time translations.

     • Conversation: Translations play out loud on your phone speakers or headphones. Take turns speaking.

     • Text only: Read translations. No audio plays.

     • Custom settings: Allows you to choose between text only, speaker, or headphones (if connected).

4. To hear a translation, tap any part of the text.
5. To pause or resume translation, tap Speak .
6. To exit translation, at the top, tap Back .

Tip:

• The microphone automatically detects when one language stops and the other language starts.
• You can continue to use Live Translate in the background. Your translation session continues seamlessly when you switch apps, minimize the application, or when the screen locks.

Face to face mode

In the face to face mode, each speaker can view the transcription and translation of each of their own languages on each half of the screen.

1. To view translations in the face to face mode, tap Face to face .
2. To pause or resume translation, tap Speak .
3. To exit face to face mode, tap Close .

Send feedback for Google Translate

1. In the Google Translate App, at the top right, tap Settings Send feedback Get started.
2. Enter your feedback.
3. Tap Send.

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