Google Meet now translates speech live in 63 languages. Latvian, Lithuanian and Finnish made the list. Estonian did not

Google announced on 22 October that speech translation in Google Meet now covers 63 languages on the web, Android and iOS. Each participant hears the others in their own language, and the captions follow the translated audio. Meet detects which language a speaker is using, even if they switch mid-sentence, so nobody has to set a language pair for the whole meeting anymore.

Google's help page lists the languages. Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Polish, German and Russian are on it. Estonian is not.

Who gets it, and when

The feature comes with Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, Frontline Plus and the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans. Business Starter is not on the list. Domains on Rapid Release started getting it on 22 October. Domains on Scheduled Release, which is most companies, get a gradual rollout from 2 November that can take up to 15 days.

It is on by default wherever the admin has enabled Gemini for Meet, and admins can switch it off per organisational unit or group. In a meeting, each person turns translation on for themselves. Base plans can translate up to 90 minutes per meeting; the AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra add-ons raise that to 8 hours.

Translation does not work in live streams, recordings, client-side encrypted meetings, dial-in or third-party calls, or with adaptive audio. Speech picked up by a conference room device is not translated for remote participants, though people in the room can hear the remote speakers translated. Google states that it does not store voice data or train models on it.

What an Estonian company does about it

Estonian is missing, so the tool helps one side of the conversation. A Finnish buyer can speak Finnish and a Latvian supplier can speak Latvian, while your own people speak English or another supported language and hear everyone else in it. For many Baltic and Nordic calls that is already a real change.

• ✳Check your Workspace edition. If you are on Business Starter, this feature is not included
• ✳Decide in the admin console which teams get it. Sales and procurement, who talk to Finnish, Latvian and Lithuanian partners most, are the obvious first group
• ✳Agree which language your own staff speak in mixed meetings. Estonian speech will not be translated, so pick English or the partner's language
• ✳Run one real meeting with a partner before relying on it, and keep a human check for prices, quantities and contract terms
• ✳Plan around the 90-minute cap on base plans, and remember that meetings held from a room device or recorded will not be translated
• ✳Tell staff and partners when translation is on, so nobody is surprised to hear their words played back as machine-translated speech

Estonian may arrive later. Google has not said when, so do not plan around it.