Google Translate’s real-time headphone translation feature is expanding to iOS and more countries

Live Translate, Google’s AI-powered Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in headphones, is expanding to iOS and more countries, Google announced Thursday.

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 capability essentially turns any pair of headphones into a one-way, real-time translation device. The real-time headphone translation experience, leveraging Google’s Gemini AI technology, maintains the integrity of each speaker’s tone, focus and cadence. This makes it easier to follow the conversation and see who’s saying what, Google says.

The tech giant suggests that people can use the feature to do things like follow dinnertime conversations with relatives who speak another language, or understand train announcements while traveling in a different country.

The feature works with any pair of headphones and supports more than 70 languages.

Users can access it by opening the Google Translate app, tapping the “Live Translate” option, then plugging in their headphones.

The expansion of Live Translate comes on the same day that Google announced the expansion of its AI-powered conversational search feature, Live Search, globally to all languages ​​and locations where AI mode is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and regions will be able to access this feature, which was previously only available in the United States and India.

The Search Live app, which launched in July 2025, allows users to point their phone’s camera at objects to get real-time help, enabling back-and-forth conversations based on visual context from 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.