AI for everyone in every language
Google says its AI now spans 300+ languages reaching 7 billion people, unveiling Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Live Translate, and TranslateGemma models.
Google announced its technologies now support more than 300 languages spoken by 7 billion people, 86% of the global population. Gemini 3.5 Live Translate powers real-time spoken translation across 70 languages and 2,000+ language pairs, while Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is its most precise speech-to-text model. Its Universal Speech Model was trained on 12 million hours of audio using cross-lingual transfer learning, and TranslateGemma is a family of lightweight open translation models covering 55 languages that run on-device. Open-data partnerships include WAXAL covering 27 Sub-Saharan African languages and Project Vaani with 30,000+ hours of speech across 109 languages.
- Google AI supports 300+ languages spoken by 7 billion people
- Gemini 3.5 Live Translate covers 70 languages and 2,000+ language pairs
- Universal Speech Model trained on 12 million hours of audio
- TranslateGemma open lightweight models run on-device across 55 languages
- Open-data partnerships include WAXAL and India's Project Vaani
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We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.
By James Manyika · blog.google
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