The best live speech translation app for Android
earslate is the best live translation app for Android for hearing a conversation in your own language: it plays the translation into your earbuds while the other person keeps talking, needs no account, is free and open source, and sends audio only to the provider whose key you supply. Google Translate's conversation mode is free, covers a huge language range and needs no key, but runs turn by turn on the phone screen through Google's cloud. Apple Live Translation is in-ear too, and needs a recent iPhone plus AirPods.
- Hears the room and plays the translation live, in your ear
- Who receives the audio
- Account required
- Hardware required
- Price and setup
Tap the Quick Settings tile and hear nearby speech translated into your earbuds as it happens. Free, open source, no account; audio goes straight to the Gemini or OpenAI key you hold.
Right for: Following a live conversation, lecture or market in a language you do not speak, on any Android 10 phone.
Free, no key, the broadest language coverage, offline packs for some languages — turn by turn on the phone screen through Google's services.
Right for: Zero setup and the widest language range, when Google handling the audio is fine.
The same in-ear job, on-device, tightly integrated — on an Apple Intelligence iPhone with recent AirPods, across nine languages.
Right for: Someone who already owns a recent iPhone and AirPods and speaks one of its nine languages.