Behind-the-scenes, this is all powered by Google Meet. Compared to manually sending a meeting link, Google says “huddles integrates directly and smoothly into the Chat experience.” ...

In Google Chat, Gemini will “detect and translate over 120 languages to a user’s preferred language while keeping the original message available for review”: Settings > Automatic Translation ...

He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Google Chat is launching huddles, a Google Meet-powered addition that lets you start a quick call with your coworkers.

Google has an example video showing the feature in action. If that's anything to go by, this feature does what the company promised — albeit with a slight delay between speech and the translation.

Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it’s bringing real-time speech translation to Google Meet. The feature leverages a large language audio model from Google DeepMind to allow for a natural ...