Google announced that its technologies power everyday interactions in more than 300 languages. The milestone covers over 7 billion people, which represents 86 percent of the global population.
Google launched Google Translate in 2006 with a goal to break down language barriers. Advances in artificial intelligence expanded Translate from a handful of languages to more than 250 today.
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate powers real-time spoken translation across 70 languages and 2,000 language pairs. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns raw audio into text in noisy environments and powers the Rambler feature on Android Gboard.
Google set a goal to support the world's 1,000 most-spoken languages through its Universal Speech Model. The model trained on 12 million hours of audio using cross-lingual transfer learning to improve speech understanding in under-resourced languages.
Open data and local partnerships
Google collaborated with grassroots partners to build open speech datasets for underrepresented languages. Partners include Makerere University, Digital Umuganda, the Indian Institute of Science, and Bhashini.
WAXAL covers 27 Sub-Saharan African languages spoken by more than 100 million people across 26 countries. Project Vaani collected more than 30,000 hours of speech across 109 languages from over 155,000 speakers in India.
Google also released Language Explorer to visualize LinguaMeta, an open-source language data repository mapping more than 7,000 spoken, written, and signed languages.
Hardware constraints and offline tools
Google developed TranslateGemma, a family of lightweight open translation models built from Gemini and trained across 55 languages. TranslateGemma runs on-device without an internet connection.
Google supports organizations like Viamo to power the Ask Viamo Anything voice AI assistant on standard feature phones. Viamo piloted the service in Rwanda, where Gemini answered more than 2 million questions.
Google introduced Sign Language-to-Text trained across more than 50 sign languages. The feature powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, starting with American Sign Language to English.
