The Google Translate app already lets you instantly visually translate printed text in seven languages. Just mở cửa the app, click on the camera, and point it at the text you need to lớn translate—a street sign, ingredient list, instruction manual, dials on a washing machine. You"ll see the text transform live on your screen into the other language. No internet connection or cell phone data needed.Today, we’re updating the Google Translate phầm mềm again—expanding instant visual translation to đôi mươi more languages (for a total of 27!), and making real-time voice translations a lot faster và smoother—so even more people can experience the world in their language.
Instantly translate printed text in 27 languages
We started out with seven languages—English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian và Spanish—and today we"re adding 20 more. You can now translate to & from English and Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish & Ukrainian. You can also vị one-way translations from English khổng lồ Hindi and Thai. (Or, try snapping a pic of the text you’d lượt thích translated—we have a total of 37 languages in camera mode.)To try out the new languages, go to the Google Translate app, phối “English” along with the language you’d lượt thích to translate, & click the camera button; you"ll be prompted to download a small (~2 MB) language pack for each.Ready to lớn see all of these languages in action?
And how exactly did we get so many new languages running on a device with no data connection? It’s all about convolutional neural networks (whew)—geek out on that over on our Research tienkiemkyduyen.mobi.
Have a natural, smoother conversation—even with a slower smartphone network
In many emerging markets, slow mobile networks can make it challenging lớn access many online tools - so if you live in an area with unreliable mobile networks, our other update today is for you. In addition to instant visual translation, we’ve also improved our voice conversation mode (enabling real-time translation of conversations across 32 languages), so it’s even faster & more natural on slow networks.
These updates are coming to both Android and iOS, rolling out over the next few days.
Translate Community helps us get better every day
On vị trí cao nhất of today’s updates, we’re also continuously working khổng lồ improve the chất lượng of the translations themselves and to add new languages. A year ago this week, we launched Translate Community, a place for multilingual people from anywhere in the world khổng lồ provide & correct translations. Thanks khổng lồ the millions of language lovers who have already pitched in—more than 100 million words so far!—we"ve been updating our translations for over 90 language pairs, và plan khổng lồ update many more as our community grows.We’ve still got lots of work lớn do: more than half of the nội dung on the internet is in English, but only around 20% of the world’s population speaks English. Today’s updates knock down a few more language barriers, helping you communicate better & get the information you need.
