ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski says we may pass the Turing Test for AI speech this year. Soon after, you'll speak any language, in your own voice, tone, and emotion, and be understood. Maybe it comes through Neuralink. Like the Babel Fish in Hitchhiker's Guide. But real. The universal translator is coming and the cultural shift it brings is wildly under-hyped.
How People Are Using AI For Language Translation
In 2025, people rely on live translation in meetings, on devices, and in creator workflows—Google Meet translates as you speak, Apple adds live translation, and one-click tools publish stories in nine languages. Users build Whisper-based interpreters for on-site conversations and report LLMs handling context better than Google Translate; creators localize with ElevenLabs voice and mobile recorders like Notta Memo, and teams add languages such as Polish, Romanian, German, Portuguese, and Hindi, while SignGemma targets ASL→English for accessibility.
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