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Apple Music just became a surprise language-learning helper with its latest free update

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Apple Music just became a surprise language-learning helper with its latest free update

Carrie Marshall

25 September 2025

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Apple Music’s translation and pronunciation of lyrics now available for Android
Also available in iOS 26
Machine translation at the tap of a screen

This summer, Apple added translation and karaoke features to the Apple Music iOS/iPadOS app that are particularly great for songs in non-Latin alphabet languages, such as J-Pop and K-Pop. And now the features have made their way to the Android version of the app.

The features are called Lyric Translation and Lyric Pronunciation respectively, and you’ll find them when you tap on the Lyrics icon for the song you’re listening to. That gives you three choices:

Show Translation, which as you’d expect shows the translated lyrics;
Show Pronuniciation, which shows the phonetic pronunciation of the lyrics;
and Hide Original, which hides the original-language version of the lyrics so you can focus on the translation or pronunciation.
Why Apple Music’s new Android features are exciting
I’ve been fascinated by the shifting tastes in global music listening since the early 2000s, with Japanese and Korean pop in particular becoming hugely popular globally. For those of us who don’t speak the original languages, being able to see the lyrics translated into our language is a really fun feature – and likely to be funny, because pop lyrics are often terrible no matter which country they originate from.