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Google Translate native app available for iPhone, features speech-to-text and synthesized voices

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 8th 2011 at 2:45PM

Last month Google came out with some new synthesized voices for Google Translate, and now the Google Mobile Blog has announced the availability of an iOS version of Google Translate, complete with voice-to-text data entry and synthesized speech. There's support for 15 languages via voice entry, but you can listen to the translation of 23 languages via those synthesized voices. Tapping a zoom icon makes the translated text bigger, handy when you want to just point and ask "where is the bathroom?" in Greek (or dozens of other languages).

Of course, the web app has been around for a while, but you couldn't do the voice or speech actions. The dedicated app is free, and I've found Translate to be quite good at what it does.



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SomeGuy

Could be a nice app if it actually recognized speech. Just tested it with some native German with disastrous results. Seems like the babel fish is still light years away :(

February 10 2011 at 4:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SomeGuy

Could be a nice if it actually recognized speech. Just tested it with some native German with disastrous results. Seems like the babel fish is still light years away :(

February 10 2011 at 4:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R. Cabell

Make the spoken language auto-detected and damn, we're one step close
to the fabled Universal Translator...

February 08 2011 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick (xbl: andsoitgoes42)

I feel as though I'm IN a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

Ford would be so proud.

February 08 2011 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben

I use the internet app on my iPhone all the time, nice to see they've made it a native app.

February 08 2011 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NutMac

Not bad, but it needs image recognition to take a snapshot and translate the text within (similar to Word Lens).

February 08 2011 at 3:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
joeybeast

And the only way to find it is by searching "google-tranlsate".

February 08 2011 at 2:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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djgigante

Great tip but that would be "google-translate" (for those that copy-and-paste)

February 08 2011 at 5:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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