Google Translate now offers live interpretation and understands Czech

  • Google Translate is getting live voice translation – it interprets fluently and lags only a few seconds behind the speaker
  • It supports over 70 languages, including Czech, and on Android, it adds a "listening mode" where you hear the translation directly from the phone's earpiece
  • It's rolling out immediately in Translate, but for now, it's only heading to Google Meet for businesses

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Adam Kurfürst
Adam Kurfürst
13. 6. 2026 02:30
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Communicating on vacation or with a foreign-speaking doctor might soon become significantly easier. Google has equipped its Translate with a new model, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate – it interprets speech fluently and almost without delay, and what’s important for us, it also understands Czech.

Sophisticated Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Model

The main change is in fluidity. Instead of the translation waiting for you to finish a sentence, it runs continuously and generates speech that sounds surprisingly natural – it preserves the intonation, pace, and pitch of the original voice.

It supports over seventy languages and automatically recognizes which one you are speaking, so you don’t have to switch anything manually. Furthermore, all generated speech is equipped with an inaudible SynthID watermark, indicating that it was created by artificial intelligence.

Google Translate Helps on the Go

The most practical new feature is directly in Google Translate, the so-called listening mode. On Android, it allows you to hear the translation directly from the phone’s earpiece – just hold it to your ear like a regular call, and you’ll hear what the other person is saying immediately in your language. This eliminates the need to wear wireless headphones and constantly pass the screen back and forth. Google is rolling out the live translation itself globally on both Android and iOS, but listening mode is currently exclusive to Android.

Google Did Not Omit Czech

What’s important for us is that Czech is among the more than seventy languages that the new model supports. In a live conversation, it translates in both directions, so you can have both your interlocutor’s speech – whether they speak English, German, or Japanese – and your own translated.

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Video calls are still more limited. Translation is only just heading to Google Meet, and although it will now support over seventy languages instead of the previous five, it will first launch only in a closed test for business customers. It will reach regular users sometime later in 2026, but Google has not provided an exact date.

Will you try live translation on your next vacation, or will you wait until it arrives in Meet as well?

Sources: Google, 9to5Google

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