If
you have a smartphone camera and need to translate printed text from English to
Hindi, all you need to do is open the Google Translate App, click on the
camera, and point it at the text. Bingo! Your job is done.
The
upgraded version of the app, announced by Google on Thursday, will now allow
instant visual translations of printed text in 27 languages, including Hindi.
“It
could be anything — a street sign, a hoarding, an ingredient list, an
instruction manual, dials on a washing machine or text from a newspaper or
book. Users will instantly see the text transform live on their screens into
their preferred language,” Google said in statement, adding that no internet
connection or cell phone data is required.
The
company said the new features come from extensive research to develop so-called
“convolutional neural networks”, or using artificial intelligence to recognise
letters and words and filter out backgrounds. Google said it is updating the
app by expanding the instant visual translation to 20 additional languages
(seven are already available), and making real-time voice translations faster
and smoother.
The
original seven languages are English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian and Spanish. On Thursday, Google added 20 more — Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian,
Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and
Ukrainian. Also users can now translate English printed text into Hindi and
Thai.
Barak
Turovsky, Product Lead, Google Translate said in a blog post, “The Google
Translate App will knock down a few more language barriers, helping users
communicate better and get the information they need, real time and without a
data connection.”
Source | Business Line | 31 July 2015
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