Set up the live translator in Google Meet

You need a PC or Mac with Chrome or Edge, and a headset. The menu names come from the Google Meet help pages, September 2026.

Meet has its own speech translation. It translates between English and French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish, and is included in Google AI Pro and Ultra and in Google Workspace from Business Standard. So English and German are covered: if you have one of these subscriptions and your calls are in Meet, you can use the built-in translation. According to Google, a meeting can use only one language pair, and there’s a 90-minute limit per meeting. Dolmi helps where Meet’s translation isn’t available to you, and in Zoom, Teams, face to face and with files.

Guide in five steps

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   Step 1: Open Dolmi on your computer

   Open Speak in a call in a separate Chrome or Edge tab or window and choose your language and the language of the others, for example English and German. You don’t choose a direction: the voice always translates from your language into theirs. The first time, the browser asks whether Dolmi may use the microphone. Allow it and choose your headset.

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   Step 2: Set up the virtual cable

   Dolmi shows you the right download and guides you through the installation. On Windows, it’s VB-Cable from vb-audio.com/Cable; restart your computer afterwards. On a Mac, it’s BlackHole 2ch from existential.audio/blackhole.

   From then on, Dolmi’s output goes to the cable: “CABLE Input” on Windows, “BlackHole 2ch” on a Mac. You only do this once.

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   Step 3: Choose the cable as your microphone in Meet

   Before you join: on the preview screen, click the three-dot menu, then Settings and Audio. Under Microphone, choose “CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)” or, on a Mac, “BlackHole 2ch”.

   During the meeting: click the arrow next to the microphone icon and choose the cable from the list. You can also go through the three-dot menu to Settings and Audio.

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   Step 4: Check with the test tone

   Let Dolmi play the test tone while Meet’s audio settings are open. If Meet hears the tone through the cable, everything is connected. Then start the translation and speak.

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   Step 5: Add subtitles for the replies

   Open the subtitles in another tab. In the sharing dialogue, choose the Google Meet tab and leave the option to share the tab audio switched on. The subtitle window floats above Meet, even if you switch tabs.

Only want to understand, not speak?

Then you don’t need the cable. Share the Meet tab with Dolmi to see the subtitles, or put your phone next to your laptop with Meet playing through the speakers.

On your phone

With the Meet app on a phone, Dolmi can’t send your voice into the meeting, because a phone browser can’t use a virtual microphone. There are no subtitles for a meeting on the same phone either. What works on a phone is in the section On your phone.

If something doesn’t work

The others hear nothing. In Dolmi, the output must be “CABLE Input” or “BlackHole 2ch”; in Meet, the microphone must be “CABLE Output” or “BlackHole 2ch”. And the translation in Dolmi has to be running.

The subtitles don’t appear. When you started sharing, the tab audio was switched off or you chose a different tab. Stop sharing in Dolmi and start again.

Dolmi translates the others too. Your microphone is picking up the speakers. Use a headset.