And earlier this year, Google beefed up its instant translation app by adding 20 more languages, allowing a user with an Android or iOS device to translate written text simply by viewing it through the device’s screen. “We’ve heard your feedback, and have worked with the Android team to make translating text, chats, and other app content a whole lot easier”, said Google Translate product lead Barak Turovsky. From there, just open a compatible app and highlight the text you want deciphered. “With updates like this one, plus features like conversation mode and instant camera translation, we’re making Translate available anywhere you need it”.
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The complaint, originally filed by Yandex, asked for a change to Google’s pre-installation of apps. Each Android mascot is controlled separately, so you’ll need to have multiple friends playing at the same time, or you can use multiple fingers by yourself if you don’t have any friends nearby. And for users who don’t already have Translate installed, this will be necessary to take advantage of the new feature. They can widen their use of the service to search for reviews of places written in foreign languages, which is exemplified by the use of translating texts within TripAdvisor. Voice translation, that executes speech-to-speech translation, has also been expanded on Android, with support for over 40 languages.
Google has lost the antitrust case against it in Russian Federation and now the company is being ordered to unbundle its Android apps which they say will give competition level ground.
“More than 500 million people translate over 100 billion words a day on Google Translate”, Turovsky boasted. Granted, most of the devices running older software won’t be updated at all, but it’s wild that such old Android devices are out there somewhere.
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Choose “translate” from the context menu that pops up.
