Google Translate is now even more convenient for those who need to speak Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish and Romanian.
The super smart app now has the ability to instantly translate 27 languages from text.
TechCrunch spoke with Julie Cattiau, the product manager for Google Translate who said:
“Our mission is to help overcome language barriers. Whenever someone faces an obstacle due to encountering a second language, we want to be there to help solve the problem. Within that mission, our most important project is improving the quality of machine translation. But part of that is also the overall user experience, which is why we also invest in things like instant camera translation and multi-language conversation.”
How does it work? Just point your smartphone’s camera at the text you don’t understand and have the app translate it in real time.
Crazy!
Developers of the also recently announced that Google Translate is becoming more human and learning to speak slang to avoid embarrassing and literal translations.
“People use Google Translate a lot – we translate over 100 billion words a day,” Aaron Babst, community program manager at Google Translate wrote in a blog post.
“However, in the past, our translation systems have generally been better at making sense of government and business documents than in helping people casually communicate.”
“But that’s all changing thanks to a recent update we rolled out.
“So the next time you translate informal speech in Google Translate, you might just find a better translation.”
That sounds fully sick – and we hope Google doesn’t literally translate that.
