New And Innovative Google Translate Tool

Global Village

With the world becoming more of a global village, and with significantly more communication taking place across borders, translations such as legal translation and other business requirements, are a more common occurrence. New translation apps have burst onto the market with Google dominating, making business and leisure travel in a foreign country easier.  Google Translate has added a new and innovative feature to their already extensive translation options for Android mobile. This new Google Translation app for mobile now lets a user add an optical character recognition to the linguistic toolkit.

Optical Character Recognition

Google Translate’s new tool means that a user is able to use the camera on their Android mobile phone, to take a picture of a foreign passage, and then have the new app translate it into their desired language. This proves highly beneficial whilst travelling and in a country with a foreign language. The user needs to train the camera on their Android 2.3 or higher, and together with the new Google Translate app, highlight the text and translate it into their own language.

More Concise Toolkit

This new feature and tool was added to Google Translate on Thursday, however, it has been more than two years since Google added the same functionality to its Google’s app, which is entirely based around image recognition. Optical character recognition forms an integral part of a more concise toolkit in the Google Translate app.

Although the new optical character recognition tool of Google Translate is a further innovation in the current app, the most ambitious tool to date is probably speech-to-speech translation, which in theory allows two people to speak to each other in different languages with the app acting as a translator for both parties. It will be interesting to see further innovations in the Google Translate app. From medical translation services to the new translation apps on the market, the world seems to be getting smaller and communication between countries more prominent.