Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries | TechCrunch

Google announced on Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to more countries.

With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the U.S., India, and Mexico.

The capability essentially turns any pair of headphones into a real-time, one-way translation device. The real-time headphone translations experience, which leverages Google’s Gemini AI, keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact. This makes it easier to follow the conversation and tell 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…