The technology - already in use in Google's Lens tool - is supposed to reduce translation errors by more than 55 up to 85 percent in certain language pairs. You can check out a full list of which languages support which feature here.įor the first time, Google Translate will also be incorporating neural machine translations (NMT) into the instant camera. But not every language has support for every feature. In addition to the instant camera, Google Translate can translate using voice, handwritten or typed text and images. From these 88 source languages, users can translate into more than 100 different output languages. This adds up to a grand total of 88 languages users can translate from by pointing their camera's lens at the text. This means users can translate from Bengali to French, or from Catalan to Polish or many other combinations.Īll told, there are 60 new languages in its list of supported languages for instant camera, including Arabic, Hindi, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese.

In other words, English no longer needs to be one of the languages used. The company today unveiled a set of new updates to its translation tool, including the ability for instant camera to translate between any of more than one hundred languages supported by Google Translate. Google Translate's instant camera feature will now make translating a foreign street sign as easy as aiming your phone - even if your native language isn't English.

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