I Didn't Build Gemini Live Translate. I Just Shipped It First in Korea.
I want to say this plainly before I say anything else: Google’s engineers built Gemini Live Translate. Google published the starter code for it. I did not invent real-time speech translation. What I actually did is narrower, and honestly more interesting to write about: I took a script Google gives away for free and turned it into a service I could open from my own phone, on my own domain, before I had confirmed Google’s own consumer app was reliably doing the same thing for me here in Korea. ...