Menus, street signs, whole webpages, even live speech. Your phone already does all of it, and way 9 works when you cannot even type the letters.
Open Google Translate, tap Camera and aim at a menu or a sign. The translated words appear over the real ones, live, without typing a single character.
Offline packs run roughly 50 to 150 MB each. Grab them on hotel Wi-Fi and typed and camera translation keep working with no signal and no roaming data.
Long-press the home button or the gesture handle, then tap Translate beside the search bar. It reads text anywhere on screen, inside apps, with no copy-paste.
Scroll and translate keeps converting new text as you move down a page or switch apps. It is being released gradually, so not every phone has it yet.
Tap Conversation and both people speak into the same handset. Translate covers more than 70 languages, quickly enough to hold a real back-and-forth.
Live audio translation used to need Pixel Buds. The Gemini-powered version streams through any connected headphones in 70+ languages, starting in the US.
Transcribe mode gives running translated text with no time limit, built for lectures and tours. It works best in a quiet room with one person speaking.
In Chrome, open the three-dot menu and pick Translate. The page reloads in your language, and Chrome can offer to do it automatically next time.
Tap the Handwrite button and trace the character with a finger. Translate matches it across 45 languages, so an unfamiliar script stops being a dead end.
The camera and offline packs cover most of a trip on their own. Download them while you still have fast Wi-Fi, not after you land.