Google Goggles updated to v1.1 – now with language translation tools

Google’s just fired out an updated version of its quirky Google Goggles Android app, adding an extremely cool-sounding translation feature to the rather odd life-scanning application.

Translation is extremely simple – you point your Android phone at a chunk of text you want translating into your mother tongue, take a shot, then Google Goggles analyses it and pings you back a translated version if it recognises it OK.

Here’s Google’s description:

“Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages. We are hard at work extending our recognition capabilities to other Latin-based languages. Our goal is to eventually read non-Latin languages (such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic) as well”

And it does it like this:

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It will be the saviour of British people abroad, although you do need to be running Android 1.6 or above in order to use it today. Read more about it in the full description over at Google’s Mobile Blog.

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  1. JiMMaR

     /  May 6, 2010

    oh well .. there is still no official Arabic support in Android
    so .. if they did implement that .. the phone would read it as squares :P

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  2. The_Pope

     /  May 7, 2010

    “It will be the saviour of British people abroad”

    You say that, but it looks like it requires a data connection to work…? So you can have your translations, but at the cost of lol£££ roaming data charges. :(

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