This week OnEBoard's session 210 was hosted by Nina Trankova and by the Google Product Expert Danilo Caccia. We watched a live demo of the AI Voice Cloning from English to Italian and discussed this AI Speech to Speech Translation revolutionary feature in Google Meet. With this AI automation you are fluent in seconds in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Portugese even if you don't speak the language.
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Unlike traditional translated captions, which can distance participants from the interaction, this technology utilizes voice cloning—referred to as "immersive voice"—to deliver translated speech that retains the original speaker's tone, emotion, and nuance.
Currently available for specific Google Workspace business, enterprise and individual accounts, the feature supports a select group of European languages on desktop platforms.
While participants noted that translation accuracy is still in its early stages, the technology is positioned as a critical tool for global business, healthcare, and education, acting as a "facilitator" to remove communication friction rather than a replacement for human language learning and cultural exchange.
Immersive Voice and Voice Cloning
Participants inclusion
Language settings
Availability
Current limitations and challenges
Accuracy
Speaking Cadence
Zero Audio Retention: No audio is saved on Google’s servers.
Model Training: Audio data is not used to train AI models.
Practical Applications and Impact
A facilitating tool
TAKEAWAYS
Danilo Caccia: "It’s not a Google Translate which reads the sentence you write... it’s very, very human and this is amazing."
Danilo Caccia: "It was very useful to understand the main meaning of the speech but sentence by sentence was not so good. But it's the first step of a long path."
Bob Danley: "I think that this technology is really necessary in today's world where we need to communicate better with each other... especially with corporations being worldwide or global in nature."
Nina Trankova: "I don't want to accept that it's disrupting language learning because language... is a relationship between people. It’s cultural, it’s emotional and there’s no tool that can replace this."
Danilo Caccia: "It’s a technology that is not going to replace people; it is going to remove the friction between people."
RELATED RESOURCES
- Google Meet Help Learn about Speech Translation
- Google Workspace Updates blog: Speech Translation in Google Meet now generally available for businesses
- Learn about Google's "S2ST technology" revolutionizing real-time, cross-language communication, turning a long-envisioned concept into reality.
- Google introduced the Gemini 3.5 Live Translate model, upgrading Google Meet's speech-to-speech translation. The update from 9 June 2026 expanded support to over 70 languages and more than 2,000 language combinations, and automatically dubs a speaker's voice in near-real time while preserving their original tone and pitch.
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