But my skepticism was clearly not shared by these two. How odd! Why would two intelligent people, each of whom spoke the other’s language well, do this? My own experiences with machine-translation software had always led me to be highly skeptical of it. Frank would write a message in English, then run it through Google Translate to produce a new text in Danish conversely, she would write a message in Danish, then let Google Translate anglicize it. However, to my surprise, during the evening’s chitchat it emerged that the two friends habitually exchanged emails using Google Translate. As for his friend, her English was fluent, as is standard for Scandinavians.
I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. Even with these caveats, we’re excited about the future promise of this technology to be able to help people connect across languages.One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. Because this technology is still in alpha, factors like regional accents, background noise or rapid speech may make it difficult to understand what you’re saying. Your conversation partner can then respond in their language, and you’ll hear the translation spoken back to you. Google Translate will translate your speech and read the translation out loud. In conversation mode, simply press the microphone for your language and start speaking. You may have seen an early demo a few months ago, and today you can try it yourself on your Android device.Ĭurrently, you can only use Conversation Mode when translating between English and Spanish. This is a new interface within Google Translate that’s optimized to allow you to communicate fluidly with a nearby person in another language. We also want to let you in on an experimental feature that’s still in its earliest stages-Conversation Mode. Among other improvements, we’ve created better dropdown boxes to help select the languages you want to translate from and into, an improved input box, and cleaner icons and layout. Today, we’re refreshing Translate for Android with several updates to make the app easier to interact with.
We also offered voice input to let you speak the word or phrase you wanted to translate instead of typing it in, and SMS translation so you could translate SMS messages sent to you in foreign languages. For the first time, we were bringing the capabilities supported on Google Translate-like machine translation, romanization of non-Roman scripts and spoken translations-to the Android platform. When we launched the first version of Google Translate for Android in January 2010, we were excited about the year ahead.
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