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Google Translate could be coming to the Recents screen on Android Q
A new feature that could add Google Translate to the Recents screen in Android Q was recently discovered.
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Big improvements
Google Translate’s camera translation now supports 60 new languages
Google has made the camera translation feature in its Translate app more powerful than ever with support for 60 new languages, automatic language detection, refreshed interface, and more.
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Google's Translatotron tries to make phone translation a bit less awkward
Google's Translatotron uses a new speech-to-speech method for translating and allows it to copy the speaker's voice.
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Real-time translation coming to all Google Assistant phones & headphones
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When Google first unveiled the Pixel Buds, one of their most unique — and most futuristic — features was real-time translation. Now, Google is rolling this sci-fi feature out to all Google Assistant-optimized headphones and phones
Addressing diversity
Google dramatically improving support for Indian languages
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Google has long held a special focus on the technology needs of India, and is making a big step toward addressing the entire subcontinent with today's announcements of improved language support across multiple products.
Putting the bots to work
Seeing better results in Google Translate? Thank machine learning
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Google announced back in November that it was adding neural machine learning, to its translation service, allowing the service to translate entire sentences at a time. Today Google is expanding support for three new languages
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Google makes Translate more accurate and sophisticated
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Here's a bit of news that will make your translation prowess a little more sophisticated. If you're like me and you check yourself before you make a fool of yourself by butchering someone else's native tongue, you'll appreciate the latest update to Google Translate. Google has announced that it's launched the next step in making its translation services even better: Neural Machine...
Ending goofy translations
Contribute to Translate in India to win an Android One phone
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Google has kicked off its Translatathon in India, enlisting volunteers to contribute to the Translate community. The search giant is looking for those fluent in Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil to validate words and phrases from their languages into English.
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Google Translate app adds 20 more text languages
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Google has updated its Google Translate app for Android, adding support for 20 more languages to its video text translation feature, for a total of 27 languages
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Google to let folk translate live while talking
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Google is set to update its Google Translate app to support simultaneous translation, a feature Microsoft recently implemented into Skype. According to The New York Times, the functionality will recognize and convert detected speech input to text in a chosen output language. It's especially handy for those who require convenient access to immediate translation support. As well as the...
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Google Translate works with 10 new languages
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Google has added support for 10 more languages to Google Translate, allowing an additional 200 million people to translate text to and from their native languages. Support for the 10 new languages is now live on the Google Translate web portal, and Google says that support will reach mobile apps shortly. Google announced in a blog post: Whether you're teaching yourself a new...
Google Translate updated with nine new languages
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Additions including Somali, Zulu and Punjabi bring total supported languages to 80 Google has updated Translate service with support for nine new languages from Africa, Asia and Oceania, bringing the total number of supported languages up to 80. The new additions include Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Somali, Zulu, Mongolian, Nepali, Punjabi and Maori, with more than 200 million native speakers...
Google Translate improving conversational translations, expanding language support
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New gesture support and improved language recognition from handwriting and images The latest version of the Google Translate app is making it even easier to have conversations between languages. The latest update, which will begin rolling out to users today, makes it easier to converse with someone by just activating the app then turning the phone between two people. You now simply...
Google Translate app updated with offline support
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An update to the Google Translate app for Android is going out today, adding support for offline translations for fifty languages. It's a big upgrade for Google Translate, which until now has required an internet connection. (We all know how expensive international roaming can be.) The new version supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread and above, and languages can be downloaded from the new "...
Google Translate v2.5 adds image translation and more
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Looks like there's a big update for the Google Translate Android app going out this morning. The big addition in the new version 2.5 is the ability to translate parts of images using your phone's rear-facing camera. This feature can be used by tapping the camera icon, tapping the screen to take a picture, then highlighting what you want to translate. It takes a little getting used to,...
Google Translate updated with tablet and copying improvements
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Having an app like Google Translate on your phone can be indispensable when you're traveling, and the latest update to Google's multilingual app adds a few improvements that should make it easier to use. The latest version 2.4.2 includes quick navigation between conversation, history and favorites modes on tablets (phones have had this feature for a while), in addition to easier copying...
Google Translate for Android introduces speech-to-speech translations for 14 languages
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Google has now taken the covers off their latest Google Translate update and it's a big one. In an effort to help bring down language barriers, Google Translate has brought speech-to-speech translations for 14 languages to Android. We began with just English and Spanish, but today we’re expanding to 14 languages, adding Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian,...
Google responds to Japan quake crisis with experimental Translate app
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Google has responded to the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan with a new experimental version of Google Translate which it hopes will make it easier for those affected by the tragic events to communicate. Like the version of Google Translate available on the Android Market, the app supports text and voice translation between over 50 languages, including Japanese. What...
Google Translate turns a year old, gets new 'Conversation Mode'
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One of the coolest little projects Google's been working on over the past year has been its translation features. And the Google Translate app just turned 1 and got a pretty major update with a bunch of UI improvements -- and one very cool experimental feature. Conversation Mode is "optimized to allow you to communicate fluidly with a nearby person in another language." Basically you...
Military testing Nexus Ones for real-time translation in Afganistan
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In yet another show of support of the open-source nature of Android by the U.S. Military, Engadget is reporting that DARPA (the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) is in the early stages of testing translation software to help NATO troops in Afganistan. DARPA teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to make it all possible, and an-Android based...