Google Translate App Sees Major Overhaul, Now Translates Signs Through Smartphone Camera
Google’s popular multi-lingual Translate App has just received a major overhaul which now empowers you with the ability to translate what you are looking at through your smartphone camera. The app can now decipher either hand-written directions or a sign saying, “one way.”
This particular update stands out because it includes a beneficial touch-guided interface that allows you to draw over the text you’d like converted into English. Additionally, users can look forward to noticeable improvements to its voice translations, with new dialect preferences and improved handwriting recognition for Japanese input. We’ve included the full update changelog below:
- Use camera to take a picture and brush text to translate (available on Android 2.3 and above).
- Get instant translation results as you type.
- Choose dialect preference for speech input.
- Japanese handwriting now recognizes multiple characters at once.
- Added access network state permission to check network availability when sending requests.
So, before your next international trip is underway, don’t forget to download the newly improved app at the download link below.
