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Introduction
The January 2015 update of the Google Translate app for iOS and Android devices offers powerful and impressive machine translation capabilities. It is a free download
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Translate Features
Translate images
Translate text
Translate voice
Translate handwriting
First, Google Translate offers instant translation using your camera to recognize and to automatically
Google Translate for Android and iOS offer similar features:
Images
- You can point your device's camera to a image with text (from a street sign or menu for example), and the Translate app will automatically translate the text and overlay the translated text on the screen.
- This is the technology from Word Lens which Google acquired some time ago
- . Instant translation currently works for translation from English to and from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian
- , Spanish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. This works without Internet access.
- For other languages not supported Google Translate app can still scan a photo taken from your phone and to get a translation of it in
- 37 languages.
What's more interesting is the ability for your phone to capture audio from two persons speaking and have Google Translate speak a translated version so two speakers speaking different languages can communicate back and forth.
Text
- words or phrases can be translated by typing them into app. This requires Internet access, however a phrasebook of past translations can be stored for viewing when you're offline.
Voice
- Google Translate can interpret spoken words or phrases and can speak the translated text. This can allow for two persons to have a bilingual conversation where Google Translate can listen to either language and speak an interpreted version in the other language. This requires Internet access.
Handwriting
- if you don't know how to type characters, you can draw characters on your device's screen and see their translation. This requires Internet access
Special features of the Google Translate for Android
Google Translate for Android offers additional features:
- The Android version of Google Translate allows for downloading of languages for offline translation when words or phrases are typed in. See https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142473?hl=en
- Google Translate can translate text within other apps such as TripAdvisor, WhatsApp and LinkedIn. See related blog post
Video showing Google Translate
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