Use Speech Translation

Communicate with others in your meeting, even if they speak a different language, using Speech Translation. Meet automatically identifies a speaker’s language then translates it to your preferred language as they talk. As you talk, Speech Translation automatically translates your speech in real-time for others in the meeting, in a voice like yours.

Speech Translation is available in these languages

What you need

• To use Speech Translation for everyone in a meeting or call:
  • In scheduled meetings: The meeting host must have an eligible plan.
  • In direct Google Meet calls: At least one participant must have an eligible plan.

• This feature is available to the following plans with the corresponding usage limits per meeting:
  • Google AI Pro: 90 minutes
  • Google AI Ultra: 8 hours
  • Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus: 90 minutes
  • Google Workspace Enterprise Standard and Plus: 90 minutes
  • Google Workspace Frontline Plus: 90 minutes
  • AI Pro for Education: 90 minutes
  • AI Expanded Access: 8 hours
• If you're in a Meet hardware-enabled conference room, you won't be translated but can still hear translations of participants outside of the room.
• This feature is not available in live streams or recordings.
• Transcripts or "Take notes for me" will only capture what's said in the configured language and won't work with all languages supported by Speech Translation. Learn more about the languages supported by:
  • Transcripts
  • "Take notes for me"

Learn how to use Speech Translation

Turn on Speech Translation

1. In a Google Meet meeting, at the bottom right, tap More options then captions and translation .
2. If it's your first time using Speech Translation:
   1. Select the language you want to hear translations in, then click Next.
   2. To let Meet translate what you say for others, click Translate me.

Turn off Speech Translation

1. In a Google Meet meeting, at the bottom right, tap More options .
2. Click captions & translation so it is no longer highlighted.

Turn off translating my voice for others

1. In a Google Meet meeting, at the bottom right, tap More options Settings .
2. In the "Speech translation" section, turn off Translate what you say for others.

How Speech Translation works

• You'll hear the translations of meeting participants who speak another language in your preferred language, if they have consented to be translated. Translations will be a few seconds delayed for completeness.
• For other meeting participants to hear translations, they also need to turn on Speech Translation. A notification appears for these participants asking them if they want to turn on the feature.
• After you turn on the feature, a Speech translation icon appears on your screen. Text beside the icon indicates when you're hearing a translation of someone else or are being translated yourself.
• No audio is saved. No models are trained on your voice. Learn more about Google Meet Security & Privacy for users and our Terms of Service.

Control Speech Translation access as an admin

If you're a Google Workspace admin, learn how to turn Speech Translation on or off for your organization.

Important: For all Workspace SKUs, the admin setting is on by default. Admins don’t need to take any action to turn the feature on.

• When you turn on Speech Translation, it doesn't disable the feature for users. It determines if meetings hosted by users can allow participants to turn the feature on or off during meetings, regardless of their eligibility.
• In direct calls between users, the feature is available to everyone if at least one person has Speech Translation.

Learn what to expect from Speech Translation

Translations created in real time have more errors than translations from a recording or text. Errors you may encounter:

• Grammatical or translation errors may occur.
• Some words may be unintelligible.
• Translated speech may have unexpected accents.
• The gender of nouns may be incorrect.
• Translated voice style may change, especially if different people speak during the meeting.
• Translation quality may vary due to poor network connectivity.

Learn how to get the best translation

• Wait for the translation symbol at the top of the speaker's tile to disappear before you respond in the meeting.
• Rephrase your message if it's unclear or if you suspect translation issues.
• For the best translation quality, make sure your network performance is as good as possible. Learn how to improve your Wi-Fi or network performance.
• Combine Speech translation with other tools.
  • Use captions with translations as a supplementary translation.
  • Use the meeting chat to communicate without speech.

Troubleshooting Speech Translation

Here are some reasons why you may not hear a participant translated or speech translation may not work as expected:

• The participant didn't agree to have their voice translated in the meeting. To opt in, participants can navigate to the Speech translation badge  on their video tile and select Allow Translation.
• The participant might be located in a region where the feature is unavailable.
• The participant is on an unsupported device.
• The participant is in a Meet hardware-enabled conference room. They won't be translated but can still hear translations of participants outside of the room.
• The participant is using Adaptive Audio.
• The participant is under the age of 18.
• The host is not on an eligible account.
• The host's admin disabled Speech Translation in the admin console, so it's unavailable in the call.

Provide feedback on your experience to help us improve.

1. Click the Speech translation badge on the top corner of the screen.
2. Next to How's your experience with speech translation?, select thumbs up or thumbs down .