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Google Translate is one of the most popular translation apps. It works on Android phones and most Android tablets and is compatible with iPhones. The app is packed with features, including the ability to download language packs offline, automatic language detection, and more.
How to use Google Translate to translate images in real time
Transcend communication barriers with a few taps
Google Translate is a nifty tool for understanding foreign languages on the go. It can take input in the form of text, images, or voice and translate it into the language of your choice. Although it is available on the web and mobile, the former is a limited version. The app works on both Android and iOS, but Google Pixel owners get access to the latest features. We show you how to use Google Translate on most devices, whether you use it on your phone or desktop PC.
How to use Google Translate's language detection feature
Google Translate can detect and translate over 100 languages automatically. Learn how to use this feature in a browser and on mobile devices
Google Translate detects languages automatically, which helps when you have no idea what you're seeing. Rather than guessing the text's origin, leave that job to Google Translate, an AI that recognizes more than 100 languages. Google Translate is a web app you can use on your Chromebook or laptop. For impromptu language detection and translation, the free mobile app is hard to beat. With an inexpensive yet powerful Android phone, you can use the camera and microphone to eliminate language barriers.
How to use Google Translate to transcribe and translate voice to text
Translate conversations, speeches, and phrases
Google Translate has many useful features beyond text-to-text translation, one of which is voice-to-text translation. This handy tool can translate and transcribe audio files or live speech in the Google Translate app in seconds offline and online. Voice-to-text translation is available on the desktop and mobile versions of Google Translate. You can use the Android or iOS Google Translate app to access this feature, although thanks to their Tensor chips, only Pixel devices like the Google Pixel 8 Pro have the real-time translation tool, Live Translate.
How to translate a PDF document with Google Translate
Turning a PDF multilingual with Google Translate
Picture yourself in a meeting with your sights set on international markets. You find a detailed report on your premium Chromebook, but it's in a different language. For an effective strategy, you need to understand the content of the entire PDF. Google Translate does more than translate text snippets. It translates entire documents, websites, and more. This article guides you through using Google Translate to convert your documents.
How to use your Google Pixel Buds to translate conversations in real time
Hold conversations in different languages
The Google Pixel Buds Pro and Pixel Buds A-Series are some of our favorite wireless earbuds. They're intuitive and comfortable with strong audio quality and Google Assistant support. But a lot of features aren't obvious, including real-time translation.
Thanks to AI, universal translators aren't just the stuff of science fiction anymore
Tools like Google Translate and DeepL are breaking down barriers
From the dawn of civilization, humanity's intrinsic desire for communication and connection has been a driving force in breaking down language barriers. However, the concept of a singular device, capable of seamlessly interpreting a diverse range of languages, didn't emerge from ancient times — rather, it was science fiction that provided the visualization of a universal translator. The concept, as portrayed in numerous sci-fi works, envisions a device even potent enough to decipher extraterrestrial languages. These portrayals transitioned the universal translator from a mere fantasy to a genuine technological goal in contemporary society.
Google Translate is bringing us a seamless Face-to-Face experience
The new upgrade might just change how we communicate across borders
For anyone who yearns to engage in conversations with relatives and strangers all over the world, the myriad languages spoken by all manner of people create linguistic barriers that almost seem palpable. Google Translate has been working for years to help break those barriers down. With the recent release of version 7.12, it's set to maybe revitalize those cross-cultural dialogues, with the deployment of some exciting new features, including a Face-to-Face mode.
Google Translate breaks down communication barriers by offering numerous ways to translate languages. For Android and iOS users, the Google Translate app is the best way to communicate on the go. Google Translate works with text, voice, or image inputs. While owners of the latest Google Pixel phone have access to the most features, any device has access to the fundamental tools that make Google Translate great.
Google Translate is a great tool to have when you want quick and easy translations done in a jiffy. While Google's translation tool is available on both the web and mobile, the latter is much more useful and powerful as it packs a lot more features. This includes being able to translate real-time conversations and ability to detect and translate text from images. In comparison, the Translate experience on the web is a lot more bare-bones, as it is limited to translating text, documents, and websites. Google is now at least adding one useful feature to Translate on the web: image translation.
Google Translate is adding contextual translations for words with multiple meanings
To the delight of lazy high school students everywhere
If there's one space where the power of AI can really show its stuff, its translations. Enabling conversations between two parties speaking completely different languages is notoriously difficult, and while Google has made some strides in this space, it's certainly not finished improving its service. At today's AI-focused event in Paris, the company announced some improved contextual tools coming to Google Translate that could help speakers avoid all sorts of common mistakes in the future.
Google Translate gets offline translation for 33 more languages
Take even more languages on the move
Google Translate has become a powerful tool for people who need quick, on-point translations. If you have the smartphone app, you can download language packages to translate phrases completely offline, but it's not available for all the languages Google Translate currently supports. Still, Google is making an active effort to not only support more languages but it also wants to roll out this offline option to more and more of them. And now, the company just introduced a bunch of new languages that you can now translate without going online.
Under China's regime of heavy censorship, Google has managed to maintain a limited presence. The company's search engine, its main revenue driver, hasn't been available for years and an attempt in 2019 to bring back a version that would've funneled user data to the government proved fruitless. Still, it does offer other services including Maps and Translate primarily on a commercial basis for Chinese firms to use. Google Translate, though, is getting turned off.
Google Chrome may be picking up a translation feature that other Chromium browsers already have
This is for when you don't need an entire page translated
Google Chrome may have been on the bleeding edge when it introduced full-page translations, but one of the (small) ways it's been falling behind is letting users translate select passages on a page. Even other Chromium-based web browsers afford this ability with Microsoft Edge doing so for years. Now, it looks like Chrome is finally catching up.
Google corrects embarrassing translation flubs after getting called out during I/O keynote
It wasn't a great look when talking about an app that's supposed to, you know, translate things
The Google I/O 2022 main keynote brought us tons of big news. We saw a bunch of hardware announcements, including the Pixel 6a, the Pixel Watch, and the Pixel Buds Pro, plus some early teasers for both the Pixel 7/7 Pro and a mysterious Pixel tablet. We also got to learn about Google's latest software innovations for Search, Translate, and countless other services. Unfortunately, Google made a pretty embarrassing slip-up when showing off its latest Translate additions — though one that's since been corrected.
Google Translate is adding 24 new languages, and it’s all thanks to machine learning
However, Google admits the technology isn’t yet perfect
As part of Google I/O 2022, the company has revealed its latest changes to Google Translate, including the addition of 24 new languages. These aren’t the world’s most common languages, but some are used by millions of people across the globe. For example, the most used language being added soon is Bhojpuri, which is used in northern India, Nepal, and Fiji. According to India’s 2011 census, the language is used by at least 51 million people.
Google Translate begins saving users' search histories to their accounts
It took a couple years, but we're finally there
Google told its Translate users about an upcoming policy change in 2020 that may finally be taking place only now in 2022. And believe it or not, this isn't the first time the company was fashionably late to its own party.
Google Translate's widget is next in line to say 'bonjour' to Material You
Enjoy faster access to translation tools with a snazzy look
We've known that Google Translate was working on its own Material You-themed widgets for a few months, but Google just tweeted out formal confirmation for what at least one of them will look like. It doesn't seem to be widely available yet, but we have to assume a rollout is imminent in the context of the announcement.
Google Translate now automatically switches Gboard language to match what you're translating
The language learner’s dream
There’s no denying the usefulness of Google Translate when trying to quickly check the meaning of an unfamiliar word or translate an entire sentence. One minor but bothersome issue is switching between your default keyboard to that of the foreign language anytime you have to type in Translate. The app's now getting a nifty update that should help solve that problem.
I flew 3,600 miles to see the Google booth at MWC and all I got were these french fries
I also got to touch a Galaxy Z Fold3 for two seconds
If life is like a box of chocolates in that you never know what you're going to get, trade shows such as Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, well, they're more like a sack of potatoes — for the most part, you know what you're in for. Take the Android Garden that Google set up between halls 2 and 3 at the Fira Gran Via. It's a veritable tuber showcase for apps on the Google Play Store, Android Automotive, and every bit of automation you can program from Google Home. If you've never been to one of these big conventions and want to know how these potatoes taste, then sit back and let us do the chopping and frying. No, seriously, we're having french fries.