The program takes your speech, converts it to text, translates, and then converts the translated text to speech. Yet it’s the voice to voice capability that really drives our desire for a universal translator and it is here that things begin to break down for the mobile app. As Google has proven time and time again in its online tools, the search engine’s statistical approach to the task is both powerful and flexible. You can give the program fairly high level words (‘adumbrate’, ‘evanescent’, etc, etc) or ambiguous phrases (“This thing is not the thing I ordered from the other thing”) and get the right translations. What I can tell you from all this testing is that the translations on the app are amazing. I may have received glaring looks of death. I may have apologized in translated Hungarian, Japanese, and Haitian Creole. You can see the original presentation of the ‘conversation mode’ feature by Google in our previous discussion.įor the past 24 hours I’ve been doing little more than playing with Google Translate on my iPhone.
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The following videos demonstrate the use of Google Translate for Android and iPhone respectively. This app hints at, but does not completely deliver on, the universal translator we will want in the future. Just be prepared: as wonderfully freeing as this technology could be, it is very far from perfect. Google Translate currently works in 57 languages of which 15 are available for speech to text and 23 languages available for text to speech. And what do you have to pay for this proto-universal translator? That’s the best part, it’s completely free. The person you are talking to can do the same in reverse. Simply by speaking into your phone you can have your words translated and then spoken aloud in a different language to someone else. The Google Translate mobile app, now available on iOS as well as Android platforms is the sort of technology we’ve all been waiting for since we first saw Star Trek. The Universal Translator is one step closer to reality. The Google Translate mobile app is a hint at the awesomeness that is to come.
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