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We haven't been able to test Meta's live translation, so we can't say how seamless it will be. But development of these products is coming fast.

The Ray-Ban Meta AI-powered glasses are getting a feature for live voice translation. 

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta, demonstrated the new feature and a slew of other updates during the keynote speech of the Meta Connect developer conference, streaming from the company’s main campus in California.

When talking to someone who speaks Spanish, French, or Italian, the user wearing Ray-Bans should be able to hear a real-time English translation through a speaker in the glasses, he said. The user then replies in English, and a mic in the glasses picks up the voice and transfers it to the user's connected