Languages help us communicate and understand the world around us. But when you don't share the same language with another, communication can go awry. What to do when you don't understand what they are saying ? Google Translate has the solution. A tool that was born to translate words and phrases from the browser and that today is a pocket assistant with which translate voice, posters and whatever you write .
Google Translate or Google Translate is available for download on your iPhone or Android . Its official application goes beyond its web functions. From the Web you can translate texts and documents, detect the language , reproduce the text by voice, etc. From your phone you can do much more. Let's see several examples in the form of tricks or surprising functions such as translating the voice or the signs you find on the street.
Download the Translator languages of Google
Google Translate was born as an online service. But despite how far everything has advanced, there are still places where there is no internet connection . Or simply, accessing the internet will be very expensive. The solution? From the app for iPhone and Android you can download the languages (up to 59 of them) in order to translate text, voice and image without accessing the network. You will save mobile data and you will be able to use the translator in disconnected places.
Within the Google Translate app, next to the languages you use to translate, you will see a Download icon. By clicking on it you will download. Sometimes the application itself suggests the option to download those languages.
You can also download specific languages from Settings> Offline translation . There you will see the languages already downloaded. You can delete them or add new ones. To add them, click on the Plus symbol and then search or choose the language you are looking for. Keep in mind that languages take up space , so if you just go by memory on your phone, you may have to do without a language or do some cleaning before .
Translate the real world with your camera
This Google Translate feature is one of the best examples of what augmented reality is for. Translate a book, sign or poster with the camera of your Android phone or iPhone. In real time.
To know the price of a dish or, directly, to know what that dish has. To find out the train schedules or simply to locate yourself in a place when the signs are in a language very different from yours. Google Translate will translate text typed or handwritten .
Within the app, choose the language combination. For example, I want to translate from Korean to Spanish. Or simply put Detect language in source language. Then we click on the camera icon.
Here we can do three things. One, translate in real time. Or as Google calls it, Snapshot . Point your phone's camera at a poster or sign and watch the letters change to your language. Two, Scan . It is used to translate only a fragment of text. You must select it with your finger. And finally Import . It is used to translate texts of a photograph that you take at that time or have taken in the past.
Google Translate and conversations
It's very good to translate words and phrases that you write in Google Translate. But during a conversation, time is short and you must be quick to listen, consult, understand, think about what to answer, consult and reproduce. All this in seconds.
An interpreter solves things, since he acts as an intermediary between both parties in a conversation. Google Translate can act as an interpreter . If you open the Google Translate app, choose the languages you want to translate in the conversation and then click on Conversation .
In the Conversation window you will see two spaces. Yours and the other person's. You can click on the central icon to translate the two languages automatically. You can also touch each microphone manually to translate what is said in one language or another . Once what has been said is translated into a language, pressing the speaker icon will play the translation aloud.
