At Samsung’s launch event today, where the corporate introduced its AI-powered Galaxy S24 line of smartphones, the corporate introduced how AI could improve the calling experience with a latest Live Translation feature. The feature, certainly one of several translation features coming to the brand new smartphones, allows customers to make or receive a call in a language they don’t speak after which receive a live translation of the decision each audibly and on the screen.

The corporate demoed the AI technology onstage at today’s Unpacked event, showing how someone could use the brand new feature to make a restaurant reservation, regardless that they didn’t speak Spanish. Throughout the native Call app, the conversation was translated immediately after they spoke to the opposite person on the phone. That person could then respond in their very own language — on this case, Spanish, which was then translated again into the caller’s language, English.

“It’s like having your individual personal interpreter in your calls,” noted Samsung VP of Product Management, Drew Blackard.

The live translation feature will launch with support for audio and text translations for as much as 13 languages, Samsung said. As well as, all the interpretation happens on-device, so Samsung owners’ phone calls remain private.

The feature may also remember your language settings and which language each of your contacts speaks, so that you don’t should make updates before your conversation. This could possibly be useful for people making plenty of international calls, in addition to for frequent travelers, the corporate suggested.

Translation features also work outside of calls, translating what you say each verbally and via text for the opposite person — and vice versa.

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As well as, translation is being added to the Samsung keyboard, so you’ll be able to directly translate words and phrases as you type. Here, as you chat, the keyboard will detect the language getting used and translate the message into the recipient’s language. This feature could possibly be helpful even when each people speak the identical language but are more comfortable communicating of their native language.

Samsung notes that users may even select different kinds of communication, like “casual” when texting with a friend, or a more formal language for work contacts. There’s also an excited tone, a social tone (for social media posts, e.g.) and a Shakespearean tone available — the latter in the event you’re feeling “just a little whimsical,” the corporate added.

Just like live translation when speaking, these translations also occur on-device because of Google’s most effective AI model, Gemini Nano.