Google Says Its AI Now Speaks 300 Languages To 7 Billion People
Google Translate, running since 2006, covers 250 languages; Gemini 3.5 does real time translation in 70 of them.
- Universal Speech Model trained on 12 million hours of audio recordings.
- Project Vaani gathered 30,000 hours of speech from 155,000 Indian speakers.
- Sign Language-to-Text learned more than 50 sign languages for 70 million users.
Why it matters: Three billion people lack reliable internet, so counting covered languages says little about who any of this reaches.