Google Translate already can instantly translate your copy-paste material, but why not just make it a two-tap process? Forget all the highlighting, just translate everything on the screen.Whenever you encounter something on your phone you want to translate, just make sure you can long-press to get to Now on Tap and you’ll get a new “Translate this Screen” option. Boom. Perfecto. If ...
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Sometimes an idea doesn’t seem obvious until you hear it, and then you can’t imagine how it was never considered earlier. Take Google Translate for instance: over the years we’ve seen it evolve from translating user-entered text, to photos, to audio, to even working with live video captured from your phone’s camera. But throughout all these advancements, the app hasn’t been able to translate text in other apps living right there on your phone. Google’s come to finally ...
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As smartphones, the software that run on them, and the services they access mature, these tiny yet extremely powerful computers continue to pull off feats that maybe even only fifteen years ago sounded like something out of science fiction. We can carry on natural conversations with virtual assistants, send notifications to our wrists, and view video in higher resolution than even our living room TVs are capable of displaying. One of these straight-out-of-sci-fi features to become reality has been the universal translator, tasking our phones to bridge communications between people speaking ...
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A few hours back we were looking at the new version of Google Wallet that Google had just announced, but this being a Wednesday and all, we knew to expect word of even more Google app updates to start coming in. We’ve picked up on three of them by now, with new versions of Maps, Translate, and YouTube ...
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