Google will roll out the updates over the next several days. “Asking for directions to the Rive Gauche, ordering bacalhau in Lisbon or chatting with your grandmother in her native Spanish just got a lot faster,” Turovsky said. Until now, users had to take turns speaking sequentially to the Translate app then wait for the spoken words to be translated into text and then wait again for the response. “For the rest of the conversation, you won’t need to tap the mic again-it’ll be ready as you need it.”
“Starting today, simply tap the mic to start speaking in a selected language, then tap the mic again, and the Google Translate app will recognize which of the two languages are being spoken, letting you have a more fluid conversation,” Turovsky said. All that a user has to do to get live audio translation is to set up the application into conversation mode, select the two languages in which the conversation will be carried out and start speaking.
The beefed-up Translate app also offers an improved audio translation experience. So Android users hoping to use their phones to translate spoken English to Swahili or Macedonian will have to wait to bit, but Google said it is working on expanding instant translation support to more languages. Instant translation is currently only available from English to and from Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German and Portuguese. The translated text will be overlaid on their screens instantly, and users won’t even need a data connection or have to be online to get it either, Turovsky said.
The technology lets Android and iOS smartphone users get instant translations on their phones by simply pointing their camera at the relevant text, Barak Turovsky, product lead for Google Translate, said in a Jan. The upgraded Translate app integrates Word Lens, a real-time text translation technology that Google acquired last May via its purchase of Quest Visual. Google has updated its Translate application for the two operating systems with features that it said are capable of doing better live translation of spoken audio and written text. Well, at least if they own an Android or an iOS device. World travelers and anyone struggling with a foreign language will soon have to worry a little less about getting lost in translation. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. EWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent.
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