Talk to anyone in their language

Where it helps

• At the doctor’s or the pharmacy. Explain where it hurts and understand what you are told — without hunting for words.
• At the town hall, the school or the bank. Ask about a letter you received, a form, or your child’s school day.
• With a neighbour, a handyman or a carer. Short everyday conversations, face to face, without stopping to type.
• When you travel. Taxi, hotel, restaurant: say it once and show the screen.

How a conversation works

1. Choose two languages. Tap the left label for your language and the right one for theirs: 24 languages to choose from. The app keeps the pair for next time.
2. Press your half of the button and speak. Pause to think if you need to, and press it again when you have finished. The translation appears in large letters, with a line that tells you how to pronounce it, written in your own alphabet. The speaker button reads it aloud.
3. Let them answer. They press their half — it is labelled in their language — and speak. You see the translation in yours.

Small things that save time

• The button is at the bottom of the screen, right under your thumb.
• Buttons and messages are in the language you choose. They are built into the app, so they switch at once, even offline.
• Your last 50 translations, your phrases and the other person’s replies, stay on your phone in a feed, like a chat. Tap one to show it in large letters again. You can clear the history at any time.
• Works on tablets and foldable phones, and with large text from your phone’s settings.
• No account, no sign-up, no ads.

Good to know

• It needs an internet connection and Google services on your phone.
• Your phone may not recognise every language.
• If the connection drops after you have spoken, the translation appears as soon as it is back, while the app is open.
• AI can make mistakes. Check what really matters — doses, dates, amounts — with the person you are talking to.
• It is made for spoken conversations, not for translating documents.
• Only for adults (18+).

Questions

• How much does it cost? 50 translations free, then €3 a month. Up to 3,000 translations a month, no ads. Cancel any time in Google Play. Subscription terms
• Do I need an account? No. Install it and press the button.
• Who hears what I say? While you speak, Google’s speech recognition service on your phone shows your words; for some languages it sends your voice to Google’s servers. When you finish, the app sends the recording of the phrase, yours or the other person’s, to our server in the Netherlands, where, for most languages, our own speech model turns it into text. The recording doesn’t go to Anthropic or to anyone else. Only text goes on through our server to Claude, the artificial intelligence by Anthropic (United States), to be translated. For other languages, or if the speech model doesn’t answer in time, the text from your phone is translated instead. Our server doesn’t save your voice or your translations: the sound is held in working memory only while it is processed. The answer, with the words heard, stays in working memory so your phone can ask again: it is reused for up to 5 minutes, then cleared when the server next handles a request or stops. The history stays only on your phone. On Android 12 and older, when the phrase goes to our speech model, the app records it itself, without Google’s service, so your words appear only after you finish. Other steps on older phones can differ too. The new versions of the apps work as described here. Until your app has updated, it sends our server your phone’s text, without sound. Which languages? How your data is handled
• Can I use it for someone else? Yes — see “Setting it up for someone else?” on the home page.