Google Translate for Android gets significant upgrade
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For anyone who has tried to travel around another country filled with street signs or public transportation displays and not been able to read them, the use of the new feature will be immediately apparent. Even simple things like visiting a museum or historical site in another country can now be much more informative (and hopefully enjoyable) with Translate’s newfound abilities.
The complete list of new features is:
- Use camera to take a picture and brush text to translate (available on Android 2.3 and above).
- Get instant translation results as you type.
- Choose dialect preference for speech input.
- Japanese handwriting now recognizes multiple characters at once.
- Added access network state permission to check network availability when sending requests.
Unfortunately there hasn’t been a similar update to the iOS app (nor for Windows or BlackBerry users), but hopefully one is in the pipeline, as iPhone users like to travel to foreign countries as well.
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source: Google Play
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8 Comments
4. good2great posted on 09 Aug 2012, 11:08 1 7
it'll come sooner than you think...
people here think google hates apple like they do...smh lol
7. joey_sfb posted on 10 Aug 2012, 00:23 0 0
Tried it on my gingerbread phone. Very impress with its camera, snap and translate very good tool for oversea travel.
3. tedkord posted on 09 Aug 2012, 10:49 0 0
I seen to recall an iOS app that translated on the fly. If you put text in the field of view of the camera, it read translated on your screen. I mean it changed it live. So if you held it up to a stop sign in English, and it was set to translate to Spanish, on your screen you'd see the same stop sign, but instead of stop it would say alto.
Or am I just remembering wrong?
5. Whateverman posted on 09 Aug 2012, 11:44 1 0
You're right. Its an app called "Word Lens". It used to be iOS only, but a quick search revealed its now in the Google Play Store for $4.99 but they're is a demo version. Pretty good app.
8. -box- posted on 10 Aug 2012, 10:34 0 0
Windows Phone has had this for a while with Translator (Bing-powered)... Good to see Google getting it, too
