Google Translate will use WordLens in-image translation
The purchase of the amazing app WordLens by Google a few months ago is going to start bear fruit shortly And it is that a few screenshots of what will be the new version of Google Translator have been discovered , the classic tool to translate almost any word from a huge selection of languages. Something that will benefit the most traveling users and that will mean having instant translations of any written text.
A couple of years ago WorldLens amazed everyone with its translation technology And this application allowed you to activate the iPhone camera to frame any printed text on a piece of paper or a poster and translate it automatically and live to another language. All this with Augmented Reality, superimposing on the mobile screen the translation with the same type of characters of the original poster or paper, but in the user's language. Something that almost seems like a work of magic and that ended up liking Google
That is why it has included this technology in its own application Google Translator Or at least that is what has been seen in the screenshots to which the Android Police media has accessed exclusively.In them it is possible to see a similar operation to that of WorldLens but in the environment of the Google app , with its style Material Design In addition, as commented in this medium, its effectiveness remains intact, allowing translations from the English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish Of course, only from the English to any of the others,or vice versa. Simply frame the text and instantly see the translation on the screen.
But this amazing and long-awaited feature is not the only one expected in the new version of Google Translate Along with this, there is also have brought improvements in conversation mode A utility that, until now, allowed the tool to be used as a simultaneous translator in spoken conversations Thus, it was only necessary to select the languages that were going to be used in the translation and speak into the microphone in parts to see the translations.This issue has now been improved with the simultaneous capture of both speakers. This means that Googleis capable of recognizing both languages and showing the translation of what is said in one and the other through the screen A point in favor of users, who can now have a more fluid conversation and without having to take turns.
In short, an update that could revolutionize this already useful translation application. Of course, in the filtered images you can still see some minimal errors very typical of Google, in which the translation is too literal. We will have to wait yet to enjoy this technology and prove its effectiveness. And it is that it is still not known when it will arrive for the rest of the users, although it is expected for a next update
