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Title: Google Translate now offers Gemini-assisted translations

Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:10:08 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-translate-...

Google has started rolling out a new version of its Translate app with a
feature that allows you to create more accurate Gemini AI-assisted
translations, 9to5Google reported. The feature appears as an AI model picker
at the top of the app, allowing you to choose between "Fast" and "Advanced"
translations. It's appeared for some users on iOS but not Android to date,
and the Advanced mode only translates between English and French, and English
and Spanish.

To use the new model, simply click on the picker up top. That gives you a
choice between "Fast" that "Optimizes for speed and efficiency," and
"Advanced," that "specializes in accuracy using Gemini," according to the
dialog box.

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To test this, I ran a passage from Moliere's French language play, Le
Misanthrope: "Franchement, il est bon à mettre au cabinet; Vous vous êtes
réglé sur de méchants modèles, Et vos expressions ne sont point
naturelles." The result from "Fast" mode was nearly a word-for-word
translation: "Frankly, he's fit for the closet; you've based yourself on bad
models, and your expressions are not natural." That is not only inaccurate
(it should be "Frankly, it's fit for the toilet" but also unclear.

Advanced mode, meanwhile, gave me an accurate take that better invoked the
book's style: "Frankly, it's fit to be thrown in the toilet; You have based
yourself on wretched models, And your expressions are not at all natural."
The standalone Gemini app in Pro mode delivered nearly the same result, while
adding context about the passage and how it fits in with the rest of the
play.

At the cost of some speed, Google Translate's new Advanced model appears to
offer more accurate and contextual translations. If you really need to be
sure that a translation is correct, however, it might be best to check Gemini
directly, as it can also offer extra context. As always, though, remember
that any AI can hallucinate and produce errors.

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