Table of contents:
- Simultaneous translation
- Instant translation through the mobile camera
- Use the app offline
- Handwriting
- Save Vocabulary
Although the Google Translate is one of the most useful tools of this company, it is not one of theapplications included pre-installed in terminals with operating system Android Even so, your service in the main mobile platforms is useful, complete and increasingly efficient. And it does much more than translate that phrase or paragraph that is not understood. Here we tell you several of its most important tricks or features so you can get the most out of this application.
Simultaneous translation
This is one of his last functions. Something that gives a whole new utility to this application that until now only allowed translating by written or by photo, or at most trying to translate some spoken phrase However, with this feature it is possible to place the mobile phone between two people who speak different languages and listen to how they translate the conversation out loudAll this to the rhythm of the chat, and without the need for interruptions. What is a pocket simultaneous translator.
Just click on the microphone icon and say a phrase in a language . After that, a new press and a phrase from the other language to be translated starts this function, all you need to do is speak.
Instant translation through the mobile camera
It is, without a doubt, the most surprising function of the application Google Translate It consists of translating any printed text through the terminal's camera, being able to see the translation into our language on the screen on paper, poster, signal or support in which the original was. The application is in charge of detecting the letters, understanding the sentence and displaying it translated with a typography similar to the original but in the language that the user wants Something that helps to Don't lose context and whose process is really surprising, although at the moment not too refined in some cases.
Use the app offline
The most necessary times to use a translator usually occur abroad , when you don't count with Internet connection and when help is most needed with a language that is not mastered. Something that Google has provided for in your app. That is why it is possible to download different language packs in the terminal, as long as it is AndroidThis allows translations to be used even without an Internet connection
Just display the menu Settings, enter Manage offline languages and click on those to be used. Of course, to download them the most intelligent thing to do would be to do it through a WiFi network due to their weight, and before embarking on the trip. Just in case.
Handwriting
In addition to being able to translate texts written with the mobile keyboard, texts printed on any surface or even translate conversations, this application offers a handwriting mode A good option to be able to translate characters from other alphabets such as Asian ones, or to ask a foreign person to write specifically what they are saying , without fear that Google understand something else beyond what is written as if it were with pencil and paper
To activate this option, just click on the icon on the right side in the shape of doodle, located to the right of the microphone .
Save Vocabulary
Sometimes there are translations, words and phrases that are repeated and that the user cannot memorize.Useful expressions that make any action more comfortable when you are away from home and that Google Translatorallows storage to always be close at hand.
After performing any translation, a history leaves a record at the bottom of the screen, being able to know all the words and phrases searched Together to them a small star can be selected, making it look like a yellow color pointing to them as favourites From this moment it is possible to delete the history or lose sight of these phrases knowing that They will always be ordered in the Vocabulary section of the Settings menu, a complete convenience for the most forgetful users .
