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Celebrate A2April!

Happy 1st Birthday to A2A! Join the community in celebrating the first anniversary of the A2A and its recent 1.0 release. April 9th marks the official birthday, and we're celebrating all month long with #A2April. To help you celebrate, we've used Gemini to make a party hat.

Use the template and instructions below to create your commemorative party hat.

Assembly Instructions

  1. Print: Print this document on heavy cardstock for the best results.
  2. Cut: Carefully cut along the solid outer border of the semi-circle template.
  3. Fold: Gently curve the template into a cone shape, overlapping the "Glue/Tape Tab" underneath the opposite edge.
  4. Secure: Use double-sided tape or a glue stick along the tab to hold the cone shape.
  5. Finish: Punch two small holes on opposite sides of the base and thread through an elastic string or ribbon to secure the hat to your head.

Party Hat Visualization

Make sure to print in landscape mode

Ways to Celebrate

  • Social Media: Share a photo of yourself wearing your hat with the tag #A2April to help generate that social media buzz.
  • Blog Series: Keep an eye out for the upcoming A2April blog series featuring quotes from the team and stories from the open source community.
  • Community Quotes: If you're using A2A in production, reach out to us via social media and share your story for the birthday post.

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices

Following our recent general availability launch for web, we are excited to announce that speech translation is now rolling out to the Meet Android and iOS apps. The feature allows audio to be translated to other languages in near-real-time, helping global teams communicate more naturally and removing language barriers.


More details
  • Language support: The feature supports bidirectional translation between English and Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
  • Single language pair per meeting: Currently, only one language pair (e.g., English <-> Spanish) can be active in a meeting at a time. 
  • Meeting room hardware: Users in conference rooms can hear translations but their own speech will not be translated. 
  • Ongoing improvements: Users can expect visual updates to the user interface, as well as refinements to translation accuracy and nuance.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability 

  • Business: Business Standard and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Other Editions: Frontline Plus
  • Consumer: Google AI Pro and Ultra
  • AI Add-ons: AI Ultra Access, Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 148 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 148.0.7778.5 contains our usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore - please head to the Chromium blog to learn more!

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Chrome Release Team
Google Chrome

Extended Stable Updates for Desktop

 The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 146.0.7680.188 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.


A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Srinivas Sista
Google Chrome