Google Translate Will Be Available Within Any App. And That's Not All
BENGALURU: Bringing the world a bit more closer, Google sweet Google, has imparted Google Translate with the ability to slide inside any app’s interface: in real time on Android devices and in an offline mode on iOS devices. The ‘tap to translate’ feature lets users translate within any app without having to switch between Google Translate stand alone service and the app in use.
The official post by Barak Turovsky, Product Lead, Google Translate read, “We know millions of you painstakingly copy-paste text between Google Translate and other apps. Now, you can just copy the text of a chat, comment, song lyric, etc. in whichever app you’re using, and a translation will pop up right there—no need to switch apps” Tap to Translate works for all 103 of Google Translate’s languages on any Android phone running Jellybean (4.2) and above.
The offline mode made for iOS now supports 52 languages the most recent one being Filipino; and has been shrunk in size to a manageable 25mb as opposed to the previous hefty size. The post described installing the offline mode as follows. “Offline Mode is easy to set up: Just tap the arrow next to the language name to download the package for that language, and then you’ll be ready to do text translations whether you’re online or not—and it works with Tap to Translate too.”Google Translate also incorporated ‘Word Lens in Chinese, Google Translate’s 29th language for instant visual translation which reads both to and from English, for both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
A comprehensive video has also been appended to the post to demonstrate how it can be used (as if Google’s offerings are too complicated for users to grasp.)
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