In the 2010 Google I/O Event, Google demonstrated its Android version of Google translate that allowed the user to speak in a language and the device will understand the message and translate and say it back in a different language.
While the demonstration in the I/O event was impressive to see the real-time translation happening, the recent announcement from Google makes this application lot more practical. Google has been offering the Google Translate service for quite sometime now and gradually they are adding more languages that get supported for translation.
In the latest installment, the Google Translate application for Android device, allows the user to speak (not type) the sentence. Google has already become quite popular with the voice recognition capabilities and the amount of voice control that Android users have over other platforms.
The Google Translate for Android is available for free and supports Conversation Mode in Beta, that allows for conversation to happen between two languages. In its current form, this application supports English to Spanish conversion, but more languages are likely to be added soon. The video below is a short demo of this Feature that was given in the IFA event recently
The source from Gizmodo also posted a live demo of the Beta mode and had reasonable success with it.
While the application is still evolving, the significance and the benefits of this device is far-reaching. As with any voice recognition, it is safer to do a verification of the text before we click on the speak button, we will soon have a day the system will be smart enough to skip that step also.
Author: Vinod
Source: Gizmodo
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