- Translation and pronunciation of Apple Music lyrics now available for Android
- Also available on iOS 26
- Automatic translation in the touch of a screen
This summer, Apple added the translation and karaoke characteristics to the Apple Music iOS/iPados application that are particularly great for songs in non-Latin alphabet languages, such as J-Pop and K-Pop. And now the characteristics have reached the Android version of the application.
The characteristics are called lyrical translation and lyrical pronunciation respectively, and you will find them when you touch the icon of lyrics of the song you are listening. That gives you three options:
- Show translation, as expected, shows the translated letters;
- Show pronuniciation, which shows the phonetic pronunciation of the letter;
- and hide the original, which hides the version in the original language of the letter so that it can focus on translation or pronunciation.
Why the new android characteristics of Apple Music are exciting
I have been fascinated by changing tastes in the listening of global music since the early 2000s, with Japanese and Korean pop in particular more and more popular worldwide. For those of us who do not speak the original languages, to be able to see the letters translated into our language is a really funny characteristic, and they are likely to be fun, because pop letters are often terrible no matter what country they originate.
More practically, these characteristics are excellent for people who learn languages: I know more French of Vanessa Paradis pop success Joe Le Taxi and Bertrand’s plastic Ca planet moi that I never learned in a classroom, because learning through pop is fun, and the songs stay in your brain in the same way as the lessons.
It also gives Apple an advantage over rivals such as Spotify, much of whose J-Pop content is blocked by the region. Apple is quite good for global pop, with a decent discovery through its pop reproduction lists: a member of the Techradar team has declared that Apple Music is the “Goed” platform for J-Pop Now (he is young), between his much superior library and this new orientation to sing along with confidence.
Apple Music’s translation and pronunciation characteristics are available in Apple Music in iOS/Ipados 26 and Apple Music version for Android, which is being implemented now.
