Google Assistant has learned a new party trick, and it's one that frequent flyers will appreciate. Your digital assistant will soon be able to be your own personal translator and interpreter wherever you are, and it looks pretty seamless.
To get started, simply ask, “Hey Google, be my French translator” or “Hey Google, help me speak Spanish.” This kicks Assistant into interpreter mode, where your phone will listen to the conversation and translate everything for you in real-time. It will also pick up some Smart Replies thanks to all of Google's recent machine learning adventures, which should hopefully help you keep up in conversation even if you're not fluent in that particular language.
If you're in a quiet environment, you can opt to use a keyboard instead, and you can manually change the spoken language.
All of this is already live on Google Assistant and works in 44 different languages, so all you'll have to do is start talking to Google to make it happen.
Read more: Google Blog
