The Galaxy’s great call translation is limited to the Phone app – this will change soon

Live Translate is one of the most interesting new features of Galaxy AI. We are talking about a function powered by artificial intelligence that acts as interpreter for phone calls so that we can communicate with people who speak a language different from ours. The translation is done in real time with synthetic voices, so its use is quite transparent and simple.

Certainly, the instant translation that the South Korean company offers us can be very useful, for example, when traveling. Now, it has a fairly important limitation: it can only be used through the phone application on some devices in the Galaxy family. Therefore, the benefits of Live Translate are limited to calls that we make or receive through our operator.

Samsung will expand Live Translate to third-party apps

Samsung announced this week that Live Translate will also be available in third-party apps. The news has been released by Won-joon Choi from the firm’s research and development office. The executive has not provided an exact date for the promising deployment, but has called the move “exciting” and added that will materialize “soon”.

Our colleagues from Xataka Móvil had the chance to try Live Translate and they concluded that it is a very useful tool. Starting from these premises, when it is finally available outside of the Phone application on Galaxy devices we will find new ways to take advantage of it, for example, with WhatsApp, Zoom or Google Meet voice calls.

It should be noted that Choi has not stated how Live Translate will work with third party applications. We do not know if the system will be in charge of directly offering translation functions in all applications with voice functions or if we will find a list of compatible applications. We also do not know if the novelty will reach all devices that currently support Live Translate.

According to the manufacturer’s page, Galaxy AI automatic translation works with One UI 6.1 on the Galaxy S24, S23, S23 FE, S22, Z Fold5, Z Fold4, Z Flip5, Z Flip4 and Galaxy Tab S9 5G and Tab S8 5G. We have to wait to find out more details of the announcement, but we cannot deny that the possibility of using such an interesting function with other applications is very good news.

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