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Google Translate adds 13 languages to its visual translator
Google search has made some advances over the past years – from auto-complete, to image search and natural language understanding.
Last year, Google announced that the Google Translate app, which is in 103 languages was made avaible in Swahili, Zulu and Xhosa.
The Google Translate app can now visually translate 13 more languages, including the fourth and fifth most widely spoken languages on Earth, including Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese.
According to recent reports by VentureBeat Googles spokesperson told VentureBeat that Google Cloud Vision API has been greatly improved to better recognize characters and, with this improvement, new datasets were trained to make sense of the written form of the new languages.
Google has also added support for camera translations of other languages spoken in south Asia like Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, and Vietnamese. Google Translate is able to handle visual translations of about 50 languages.
Translation of text seen in photos or in real-time on billboards or menus was added for Google Translate in 2015, and started with 27 languages. To carry out visual translations, simply open the Translate app and choose the camera icon. Translations can be carried out in real time.
Google Translate will be available for free on Google Play and the App Store. The update will be rolling out globally in the coming days.
Edited by Neo Sesinye
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