La simultaneous translation through a Android device it's here. Some time ago, the Mountain View company had acquired the company Word Lens with the aim of mastering technology in the field of language translation, taking advantage of their experience and development in these tools.
Well, the fruit of that work is already on your Android device. If you have installed the google translate app not only you can translate texts by pictures to these, as could be done for months, but now you can to converse with other people who don't understand your language using tu phone o tablet as a translator simultaneous. What sounds good?
The WordLens feature
For months, the Google Translate Application has been able to translate a text that we take a picture of with our Android device.
As you probably know, all you have to do is open the application, photograph the area to be translated and then point your finger at the words that the application has been able to understand on the screen.
Logically, the tool is capable of better identifying characters written on a computer or machine than manually.
It is a system that uses OCR technology (optical scanner recognition) with the Google translation engine, so that we can instantly have a text translated into our language. The application currently allows translation to 36 languages different, the most talked about on the planet.
And for this it is not necessary to have a data connection at that time, but we can use the application without an Internet connection.
The simultaneous oral translator arrives
But Google has gone a step further. The American company has been able to develop its application to enable two people to understand each other by speaking a different language in real time.
If a few weeks ago Skype Translator launched a tool on the market simultaneous translation (English-Spanish) by videoconference, Google has achieved it in real time and for 36 languages.
To do this, simply open the application, choose the source and target language, press the microphone and dictate the phrase. In seconds, Google translates the speech, listening to the original words in the other language.
What better than to see how it works through this video:
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If you try it, we advise you to speak calmly and pronounce as correctly as possible, logically Google does not perform miracles and if we speak very fast or do not use logical grammar, it can make incorrect translations.
But the progress is enormous. What's more, if we're in a hurry, the application is able to recognize the source language instantly, without having to select it.
What do you think of this new Google Translate feature? You've tried? If so, we would like you to leave us your assessment and experience with it. You can do it at the bottom of this news or in our Android Applications Forum.
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