- Signs of compatibility with XR glasses have been detected in Google Translate
- The feature would stream live translations directly to your ears.
- Samsung and Google are preparing to launch new XR hardware
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As discovered by Android Authority, hidden code in the latest version of Google Translate for Android mentions “Glasses” as one of the devices through which you can transmit spoken translations, in addition to headphones and the phone’s speaker.
The feature is not yet enabled in the app, but is closely tied to the live translation feature that began rolling out in August. It seems clear that this will eventually be added to any Android-powered XR lenses that are on the way.
We’ll have to wait and see exactly how this works in practice, but the idea would be that you can have a conversation with another person in a foreign language and get translations delivered straight to your ears from the smart specs you have.
What is already here and what is coming soon
We’ve already seen something similar to this in wireless earbuds from Google, Samsung and Apple, so the idea of routing translated speech directly to your ears isn’t new, but it could be more convenient than ever in a pair of XR specs.
It’s something that devices like the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses also have on board, although they use Meta’s own custom AI models. With the power of Google Translate, reliability and speed could reach a new high bar.
Samsung has promised that its own XR glasses will arrive at some point, while Google is also teaming up with Magic Leap on a couple of specs. It seems that we are about to be hit by a new wave of these smart glasses in the near future.
We’re not sure exactly when these features might be available in Google Translate (Android Authority also spotted upcoming options to pause playback individually by language and background playback), but it should be sooner rather than later.
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