Google Meet just got much better captions

Date:
Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:02:05 +0000

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Google Meet is getting better and better at automating the breaking of language barriers, but inclusion has been made an exclusive feature.

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Google Meet has expanded its real-time translated captions feature of the video conferencing software to include some additional, and commonly
requested languages.

Announcing the expansion in a post on the Google Workspace updates blog, the company said that English calls can now be translated into Japanese, simplified Mandarin and Swedish. French, German, Portuguese and Spanish
calls, meanwhile, are now able to be translated into English.

First announced and released in beta in January 2022, the real-time translation feature looks to take the onus of making meetings as accessible
as possible to participants by removing language proficiency barriers away from businesses, and simply make it a fact of life. Google's translated captions feature

Google Meets real-time caption translation feature is an admirable effort to connect those across the globe, but Google seems intent on keeping it contained to the business world.

It is available only in meetings organised by users with a specific set of account types, all under the Google Workplace banner. These include Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education
Plus, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade.

its unclear if Google Workspace Individual customers or personal Google accounts will gain access to translated captions in the future, or why the feature has been restricted thus far.

Previously, the feature was already capable of translating English meetings
to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and available on both web and mobile devices. Read more

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Google also announced that standard captions are now also available in Japanese, Russian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and traditional Mandarin, and for all Google Workspace users. Again, Google Workspace Individual and personal users remain left out.

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