Google Translate is updated with these new features
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The Google Translate app is updated with some juicy news. Some changes that concern, above all, the nomenclature of some characteristics of the application itself. Now, Google, instead of referring to 'dialects', will speak of 'regions'. Specifically, nine dialects are receiving their own names. In addition, another of the main novelties of Google Translate is that we are going to have some very useful shortcut icons.
Goodbye dialects, hello regions
A change, perhaps, not very significant, but it is important to review. Google has decided that talking about dialects, perhaps, isn't exactly appropriate, so now they're going to go with the more generic term 'regions' In Android Police they assume that this change may refer to the fact that, generally, the term 'dialect' can be interpreted as both 'description of social groups' and 'geographical locations'. Thus, Google prefers to limit itself to the concept of 'region' and ignore any interpretation of social or economic elite.
A more important change refers to the names of these regions. As of the new update v5.16, these regions will have their own name, instead of the ISO 639 code with which they were referred to. They look like this from now on:
- Bengali (Bangladesh)
- Bengali (India)
- English (Ghana)
- Urdu (India)
- Urdu (Pakistan)
- Tamil (India)
- Tamil Region (Sri Lanka)
- Tamil (Malaysia)
- Tamil Region (Singapore)
New shortcuts in the app
Another change to the Google Translate app refers to new shortcut icons. As of Android 7.1 Nougat, if we held down an icon on the home screen we could obtain new icons: for example, if we held down the Maps icon, we could 'extract' several 'sub-icons' from the main icon with the route to our work , or if we clicked on 'YouTube', we could have a direct shortcut to the most viewed videos of the moment.
Now, with the new update, we are going to have several shortcuts quite useful: shortcut to typing modes, camera , keyboard and voice. Thus, you will be able to translate your phrases in a simpler and more effective way.
You can wait for the Google Translate update to skip directly on your mobile or download and install the version from the Apkmirror repository.
Via: Android Police
