A new update for the app today brings both Split View support for newer iPads along with new instant visual translation languages.
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These days, however, Google Translate lets us all communicate a little more easily across language barriers. The best part is that you don’t even need to have Internet connection or cell phone data.
Instant visual translation is spooky cool – you just open the app, click on the camera and point it at the text in the real world you want translated. With this month’s update, Google adds support for translating printed text in English or German into Arabic, something that was already available for the apps other translations features including conversation mode and text input model. You’ll see the text transform from one language to another in real-time on your screen.
The new features should be available right away so try them out if you have need of this.
What this means is that as you can see in the screenshot above, you can continue chatting and see your main app window, while being able to copy and paste a translation into Google Translate on the side. This time around, you’ll get to enjoy the visual translation, which might make it easier for you to go around an unfamiliar city, read and understand restaurant menus, read documents, maybe even pick up a book.
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A small language pack download of around 2MB is all that is needed to start using the new language capabilities.
