Overview
- Google marked Translate’s 20th birthday on Tuesday by releasing an AI tool that helps users practice saying words correctly.
- The feature is rolling out on Android in the US and India with support for English, Spanish, and Hindi, and it lives in the app’s Practice tab.
- Users can choose Pronounce to speak and get instant, phonetic feedback or Listen to hear native-like audio, with Google’s demo correcting Spanish “jugo” to the cue “HU-go.”
- Google has not given a timeline for iOS or for expanding to more regions or languages.
- Google says Translate now serves over 1 billion monthly users and about 1 trillion words a month, after evolving from statistical methods in 2006 to neural networks in 2016 and now Gemini-powered features.