for Android adding support for camera
input for 16 new languages including
Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian,
Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian,
Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian,
Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish.
The app already supports camera
input based translation for languages
such as Czech, Dutch, English, French,
German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
The app update also introduces a
sync-able Phrasebook. This means
that users can sync saved phrases
across various Android devices if
they're signed-in via their Google
account. The Phrasebook has replaced
Favourites which were available earlier
and saved phrases or words are now
under one section.
Google had introduced
Phrasebook,earlier this year allowing
users to save translations for useful
phrases.
In March, Google had updated the
Google Translate Android app with
support for offline translation through
offline translation packs for fifty
languages, including French, Spanish,
German, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and
Arabic. The app also started
supporting translation of vertical text
in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
through the mobile device's Camera.
The offline translation packs can be
downloaded through the Offline
languages section in the app menu
where users can browse all the offline
language packages available for
download.
Google Translate is a free translation
service that provides translations
between 65 different languages. The
Android Translate app lets users input
text using voice, handwriting, and
camera and also enables them to
listen to translations spoken aloud.
Users can also save their favorite
translations for quick, offline access.
Google had introduced camera-input
support for Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean in December 2012 though it
was limited to horizontal text. The
camera feature was integrated in
August along with Google Goggles'
optical character recognition (OCR)
technology, to use the camera of an
Android smartphone to input text
without typing.
The Translate app is also available for
iOS but it hasn't been updated after
March 2012.
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