Google announced that Google Meet's voice translation feature now supports 63 languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Amharic and Cantonese. Translation works both ways and runs on Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: each participant chooses which language to hear the other side in, and which languages never to translate.
In a test by Geektime, the feature lowers the speaker's voice when it kicks in and, after a delay of a second or two, plays a dubbed version in the chosen language, trying to imitate the speaker's voice. In Hebrew and English the translation was "not bad at all", but the voice sometimes distorted and the system occasionally confused two speakers.
As usual with Google, the rollout is gradual, and the feature may not appear for every user right away.