Google announced today that the paid version of Google Meet will now provide automatic audio translations for participants. You can see a video demonstrating how it will work at the bottom of this post.

I may be wrong, but I think this makes it the first major video conference tool to offer this feature.  I believe that Microsoft’s Interpreter feature for Teams is still in the pilot phase, and that Zoom only offers translation in captions.  Let me know if I’m wrong.

We’re coming closer and closer to Star Trek’s Universal Translator!

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