The next update of Google Translate for Android will bring automatic recognition of popular languages and convert speech to text in real time. About this newspaper The New York Times.
The Google automatic translation application already works with a variety of languages, which are entered by voice or from the keyboard of a smartphone, and are displayed as text. New update for Google Translate allows you to automatically recognize spoken language, that is, the user will no longer have to select the language manually.
According to Google Translate technical director MacDuff Hughes, 500 million active users use the service every month. According to him, language translation is an important part of learning for many people, since about 90 percent of Internet users speak about 10 languages.
Google is also working on a function that will allow you to direct the phone’s camera to a street sign with foreign text and get an automatic translation to the screen. Similar functionality has the application Word Lens, which supports the translation of text in real time using the camera of a smartphone.
When this update will be released is unknown. Google did not provide details.
Recall that Microsoft recently released an update for Skype messenger, which included the function of simultaneous translation of speech. The Skype Translator service works so far only in two languages - English and Spanish - and is available on Windows 8.1 or 10 operating systems.
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