New Google Translate update allows users to take Phrasebook on the go and brings camera-to-translate function to 16 new languages

by Roy Alugbue on May 9th 2013, 12:12pm
tagged Google, translate

Google certainly pulls no stops when it comes to making life easier for those of us that happen to travel abroad and that’s why it has announced the next great additions to its Translate app— Phrasebook on the go the addition of 16 new languages for the translate by camera function. The latest addition to the app allows users to save common phrases such as “Where can I find a museum?” and automatically sync the phrases in your Phrasebook to your various Android devices using the Google Translate mobile app— allowing you to carry the more useful phrases on the go. All that’s need are literally a few simple taps, sign into your Gmail account and bam— you’re in business.

Also, users will now be able to utilize camera-input to find translations in 16 additional languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish. You can check out more details when you hit up the source link.

source: Google Translate Blog

Trio of Google apps join Google Search and Google Now updates today

by Jeff Causey on Dec 5th 2012, 8:07pm
tagged Authenticator, Google, translate, update, voice

A trio of Google’s apps received updates today, joining Google Search or Google Now on Jelly Bean devices. Google Translate received a major update, now providing the ability to recognize Chinese, Japanese and Korean using a device’s phone. The capability is limited to horizontal text only for now, but we can only imagine the ability to translate vertical text must be in the works. Google also added eleven new languages, Afrikaans, Croatian, Czech, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Welsh, to the list that can handle handwritten text. » Read the rest

Major update for Google Translate app hits Google Play store, adds image translation capability

by Jeff Causey on Aug 9th 2012, 12:08pm
tagged Google, Google Play, translate, update

Google issued a major update to their Google Translate app for Android today taking it up to version 2.5. The most impressive change included in this update is the ability to take a picture with your device’s camera and perform the translation by brushing over the text you want translated. This could be very useful when traveling to take pictures of things like road signs or maps or a restaurant menu. The image translation functionality does require Android 2.3 and above.

Other enhancements in this latest version include instant translation results as you type, the choice of a dialect preference for speech input, recognition of multiple Japanese characters at once, and some checks of network availability. To grab this newest version of Google Translate, just hit the link below.

Google Play Download Link

Tap-Translate For Android Lets You Translate Text In Your Web Browser

by Joe Sirianni on Feb 20th 2011, 1:37am
tagged browser translate, translate, translation

Tap-Translate, by developer Ronen Drihem, is officially the first translation application for Android that allows you to translate a word or phrase and more directly within your browser. This is a fantastic app and brings excellent functionality as most translation apps force you to open another application or to leave the page in order to utilize its services. However, Tap-Translate allows you to do that all while never leaving your browser. In addition, with one single tap, you can instantly hear the translation’s pronunciation of the word as well as view it. Translate whole words, paragraphs and whole pages when browsing on foreign websites. There are a total of 56 languages supported by the app to date and we suspect the developer is working on adding more.. The app will run you $1.99 in the market but it’s well worth the benefits. Check out the video below of the app in action and if you’re ready to give it a go, head on over to our apps database for more info and to download it. And don’t forget to let us know what you think of the app in the comments below.

App of the future here today, Realtime language translator for Android

by Chris Moor on Jul 19th 2010, 4:38pm
tagged real time, realtime, translate, translator

A new app is available that will make traveling abroad much easier. Universal Translator, by DLP Mobile, has made a revolutionary way to communicate in another country. In the past you would either have to have a human translator, or carry around one of those thick guides and flip though pages for every word. But wait, what if you’re stranded somewhere or a connecting flight is cancelled in a foreign country? Then what do you do?

Now you can break out your phone and talk like a native. Universal Translator allows you to speak in your home language and have the device translate, and speak what you’re saying in the language of the receiving person. Now asking where the train is, to get back home is not that complicated. Living in Arizona this is a big help for me where half of the population speaks Spanish. I might just have to give this app a run and see how it performs first hand. If you are multi lingual and have tried this app out let us know what you think.