Google Translate May Soon Get ‘Continuous Translation’ For Voice Inputs
Dec. 17, 2019Google Assistant’s ‘Interpreter Mode’, which allows the software to translate conversations in real-time,finally started rolling outto smartphones and tablets after being rolled out onGoogle Homesmart speakers and displays earlier this year. However, the tech giant is now also believed to be working on a similar functionality for its Google Translate app, enabling users to interact with folks who don’t speak their language.
Believed to have been originallyspottedby renowned software reverse engineer, Jane Manchung Wong, the new feature is a real-time translation functionality that translates speeches without interruption to facilitate a conversation between two people who don’t speak each other’s language. Called ‘Continuous Translation‘, the feature is currently in the early stages of development, but will hopefully be released sooner rather than later.
To get started, users need to select the all-new ‘Listen’ icon next to the Camera and Conversation icons in the G-Translate app. They’ll then be able to choose the target language from a drop-down menu, while the input language can be either selected manually or auto-detected by the software.
The feature currently supports Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese, although that might change by the time it’s rolled out globally.
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