Earlier, Google supported seven languages – English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The 20 new languages that can be translated to and from English include Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian.

What’s most interesting about this app, is that it lets this printed text translation feature work offline also without Internet connectivity. The Google Translate is used mostly in Europe and Asia, and almost 95% of the daily 100 billion translations conducted are outside the US, which is somewhat evident that it is mostly used for traveling purposes. Even though the mobile phones at the time had quite limited camera capabilities, what World Lens showed to us was the future of translation.

However, unlike Google Translate, Waygo charges a premium for its service and does not offer video translation. As part of the new update, the Translate app will work faster on slower networks, enabling real-time translation of voice conversations for 32 languages. Otavio Good, a software engineer at Google, said in a blog post that his team had to develop a very small neural net and put limits on how it was taught. An example would be how it needs to recognize a letter with a slight amount of rotation, but not too much. Google seeks to make it even more useful and accessible using convolutional neural networks.

“Inside of a few minutes, we can change the algorithms for generating training data, generate it, retrain, and visualise”.

Considering that there are so many languages in the world, Google Translate has a long road ahead of itself.

The latest Google Translate update is coming to both Android and iOS and it will be rolling out in the next couple of days.

Now, thanks to machine learning, Google has upgraded the app to instantly translate 27 languages.

 Source: http://www.ifreepress.com