By Abner Li
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 17:00:00
Google Translate is rolling out new features that leverage Gemini, including live translation with headphones.
Google Translate is now leveraging “advanced Gemini capabilities” to “improve translations on phrases with more nuanced meanings.” This includes idioms, local expressions, and slang. For example, translating “stealing my thunder” from English to another language will no longer result in a “literal word-for-word translation.” Instead, you get a “more natural, accurate translation.”
Gemini parses the context to give you a helpful translation that captures what the idiom really means.
This is rolling out starting today in Translate for Android and iOS apps, as well as the website and Google Search. It’s coming first to the US and India when translating between English and nearly 20 languages, including Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and German.
Meanwhile, the Translate app will let you hear…
