A possible update to the Google Translate app could bring real-time translation capabilities, and more importantly a human-operated speech-to-text service. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is now built-in – reducing errors by 55-85% in certain languages.Google may have a new spin on language translations, according to a report from The New York Times this week. The Detect Language feature will solve that conundrum for you.Īside from the obvious enhancements, Google Translate’s instant camera translation feature has enhanced AI now too. Both Portuguese and Spanish are spoken in areas across the region – so you can’t just assume a sign you don’t understand is one or the other. Google cites South America as a perfect example for the Detect Language feature.

Users can now point their camera at some text in the real world and Google Translate will automatically detect the language from what it sees through your snapper. The update also brings across a much-used Google Translate feature – ‘Detect Language’. Previously, the camera translation only supported translations between English and other languages. Another big boost to the feature is that you can now translate between all of the supported languages. The camera translation tool has now added support for 60 additional languages – adding Arabic, Hindu, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese. The update makes the text more stable, and therefore easier to read. The idea of Google Translate’s instant camera translation is quite remarkable but hard to use when the overlay of the correct translation is shaky – Google says it has now fixed this. Related: Amazon Prime Day Smartphone DealsĪ big fix is the stabilisation of flickering when using the tool.

It’s an amazingly handy feature for instantly translating things like road signs and menus – a massive help when you don’t have the best grasp of the local lingo. Google Translate’s instant camera translation lets you point your phone at text in the real world and have it translated to your desired language directly in your viewfinder. It allows you to live translate text, and should now get better, thanks to the arrival of new AI, language and camera enhancements. Google is upgrading the camera feature in the Translate app.

Google app that translates signs