Google's new AI translator can speak foreign languages in your voice

Google researchers, demonstrating a new AI-based translation model, have shown how people may soon be able to use AI to seamlessly speak to other people in different languages using their own voice. — Photo: Google/dpa

BERLIN: AI is ushering in a new generation of translation apps, and Google's latest translation project is trying to break down language barriers with a new AI model that does the talking for you.

Google's Audio-Palm AI model for translation, unveiled in late June, can recognise, process and generate both text and speech, but the most impressive feature is that it can do it with the respective user's own voice.