Sign and Real-Time Voice Translations are Supported by Google Now


Google translation feature is getting a huge update in a few days. The voice assistant is going to understand spoken words and now can speak and translate in one of 27 languages. I got a chance to try out this feature and was suitably impressed with its perfection.

Google Translate is already a very useful application for anyone who lives overseas or travels regularly, and it is getting smarter day by day. A new update which is rolling out today on both Android and iOS apps by introducing two very spiffy features:

1.Real-time voice
2.Sign translation.

The image-based translation is already offered by them, but now the magic occurs without any delay. What’s the best about it is that it’s going to work offline for regular travelers.

The visual translation feature gets activated when you select the phone camera option inside the application. To translate, simply point the camera at the sign and ensure that it is captured fully and then the app will translate it itself.

There is also a feature called Real-time voice translation which is a very good tool and you can use it to act as an intermediary for peoples' who are having a conversation using different languages. For example- one person is from the U.S and one from Germany then, both of them will use that tool which will translate what they are saying in real-time.

If you want to activate it, just tap the in-app mic once and start talking in the foreign language first. Then as soon as the first language has been recognized — tap the mic again and both people can begin talking. It helps in overcoming the language barrier by translating both sides of the conversation in real-time.

Google Translate has had a Voice translation feature for Android phones for some time, but now it is finally coming to iOS. It is going to be “faster and more natural” on Android phones, Google says.

This translation was somehow limited at first but now they have extended it a lot. Earlier they only worked to translate Language English to and from German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, French, and Spanish, but Google has now planned to expand support with time and they will try to improvise it too.

An interesting thing is that the company also threw out some new stats about the popularity of the Translate app. Millions of people use this kind of service each month, with more than one billion translations made per day as claimed by Google.

Those figures are quite incredible, to be honest, and with two most useful new features now up and running on both iOS and Android. Google Translate is likely to grow into even more of a monster hit and it's gonna rule the market.

Earlier Google could translate only a few languages but now in the recent update, Google can translate the languages like Arabic, Chinese, French, Czech, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

But now, they can translate in many languages and they are updating their tool very often and also improving it a lot.I think it has a long way to go as technology is improving day by day and there is no stopping on how far they can take this. So I think we have to wait and see, what comes up next in the near future.


Written by - Tarun Agrawal