translation

Google announced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a speech-to-speech translation model supporting over 70 languages with continuous audio generation. The model rolls out today to Google Translate on Android and iOS, with Google Meet integration coming in private preview this month for select Workspace customers.

Tencent released Hy-MT2, a family of multilingual translation models available in 1.8B, 7B, and 30B-A3B (MoE) sizes. All models support translation among 33 languages and follow translation instructions in multiple languages. The 1.8B model can be compressed to 440MB using 1.25-bit AngelSlim quantization.

Tencent has open-sourced Hy-MT2, a family of multilingual translation models available in 1.8B, 7B, and 30B-A3B parameter sizes. The models support translation across 33 languages and include extreme quantization down to 1.25-bit, reducing the 1.8B model to 440MB storage while increasing inference speed by 1.5x.

Descript has integrated OpenAI models to enable multilingual video dubbing at scale, optimizing translations for both semantic accuracy and speech timing to produce natural-sounding dubbed content. The system balances meaning preservation with practical constraints of dubbed audio synchronization.