Live subtitling works only in English for now and offers translations to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.
Google Meet has long supported subtitles for English speakers that come live on screen. After a test period of nearly four months, the search giant is rolling out live translation on top of that to all users using the app or the web version.
For now, Google Meet only supports translation from English to French, Spanish, Portuguese and German, and only in that direction. Handy for French speakers who are in an English-language video call, but vice versa, so it does not apply to English speakers who need to follow another language. Live subtitling of a video call today is also only possible in English.
Google stresses that live translations are never perfect. Despite the past testing period, beta testers can continue to actively provide feedback to improve the feature.
Those who want to use live translations must enable it manually. Go to Settings, Captions and select Translated captions on the web version. On mobile, you can enable the feature via Settings, Captions, Live Captions and select Translation Language. Don’t see the feature? It may take up to 15 days for you to receive live translations because Google is rolling out the feature on a staggered basis.
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