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April 29, 2026
Pronunciation with AI: This is what's new with Google Translate on its 20th anniversary, how to use it?
Twenty years after its launch as an artificial intelligence experiment, Google Translate is the most used digital translation tool worldwide...
TL;DR
- Google Translate celebrates 20 years as the world's most used digital translation tool, with over 1 billion monthly users.
- A new AI pronunciation practice feature has been launched in the Google Translate app for Android.
- The feature analyzes user pronunciation in real-time and provides instant feedback on diction.
- It is currently available for Spanish, English, and Hindi in the United States and India.
- Google Translate has evolved from statistical machine learning to neural networks and now uses Gemini models, supporting nearly 250 languages.
- About a third of mobile app users use Google Translate for language learning, with nearly half of practice feature users focusing on oral expression.