Many Google products involve speech recognition. For example, Google Assistant allows you to ask for help by voice, Gboard lets you dictate messages to your friends, and Google Meet provides auto captioning for your meetings. Speech technologies increasingly rely on deep neural networks, a type of machine learning that helps us build more ...

Next to “Google Translate,” turn on microphone access. On your computer, go to Google Translate. Choose the languages to translate to and from. Translation with a microphone won’t automatically detect your language. At the bottom, click the Microphone . Speak the word or phrase you want to translate. When you're finished, click Stop .

To use Assistant voice typing, update your Android System Intelligence app on Google Play. If you’re on Android 12, you may need to update the Android System Intelligence app. Learn how to check your Android version.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Home app . At the bottom right, tap Settings Google Assistant Assistant voice & sounds. Under "All settings," tap Assistant voice. Select a voice. Turn off speech output. When you turn off Speech Output, your Google Assistant will show you responses on your phone, but it won't say them out loud.

Important: If you use an audible screen reader, we recommend you use headphones, as the screen reader voice may interfere with the transcribed speech. Translate by speech Open the Translate app .

Important: To use this feature, in your device settings, turn on microphone permissions for Google Translate. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Translate app . Tap Speak Transcribe .

To make interactions with Google Assistant more natural and helpful, we are constantly improving our speech recognition models. Personalized speech recognition helps Google Assistant get better at recognizing your unique speaking style, words, and phrases. How personalized speech recognition works. Important:

On your Android phone or tablet, install Gboard. Open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep. Tap an area where you can enter text.

You can translate text, handwriting, photos, and speech in over 200 languages with the Google Translate app. You can also use Translate on the web. To translate text, speech, and websites in more than 200 languages, go to Google Translate page.

To automatically speak translated text: Tap Speech input. Then, turn on Speak output. To translate offensive words: Tap Speech input. Then, turn off Block offensive words. To choose from available dialects: Tap Region. Then, select the language and dialect. To choose gender tone: Tap Tone. Then, select male or female.