How to Use Google Pixel Buds to Translate Languages in Real-Time 

Google Pixel Buds can help you translate 40 languages in real-time.

Your Google Pixel Buds are more than just earbuds for listening to music and answering phone calls. That is far from the case. If you know how to use it correctly, you’ll be astounded by what your earbuds are capable of.

Language translation is one of your Pixel Buds’ abilities. The concept is straightforward. You only need to connect your earbuds to the Google Translate app on your Android phone to instantly translate languages.

This feature is extremely useful when meeting someone who does not speak the same language as you or when visiting a country where you do not speak the language.

Another good thing is it currently supports 40 languages:

Afrikaans	English	Japanese	Serbian
Arabic	Finnish	Khmer	Sinhala
Armenian	French	Korean	Slovak
Bengali	German	Latvian	Spanish
Catalan	Greek	Nepali	Swahili
Chinese  (Mandarin only)	Hindi	Norwegian	Swedish
Croatian	Hungarian	Polish	Tamil
Czech	Icelandic	Portuguese	Thai
Danish	Indonesian	Romanian	Turkish
Dutch	Italian	Russian	Vietnamese

Requirements

Before you proceed to the transcribing feature, you need to see the requirements below:

• Internet connection
• Google Account
• The latest version of the Google app
• The latest version of the Google Translate app
• Enable the Google Assistant 

To activate the Google Assistant on your Android devices, press and hold the home button. Then, tap Turn On to activate Google Assistant on your device and follow the on-screen instructions.

After you have prepared all the requirements above, let’s move to the tutorial.

How to Use Google Pixel Buds to Translate Languages in Real-Time

Before translating, you need to tell Google Assistant the selected language you are interpreting to.