If you’ve fallen in a gutter in a drunken stupor outside the bar of your holiday resort, Android will soon be able to help.
In a demo of a forthcoming updated Google Translate feature at Google I/O 2010, the Google demonstrator spoke his request into his Android phone in English – and Google computed it, then spoke back his request in Spanish (UPDATE: actually, French. Whoops).
Here’s a picture which in no way does this audio-based feature justice:
Your phone will soon be a universal translator, basically. This means there’s now even less motivation for people like us to bother learning foreign languages in school.



Tony
/ May 20, 2010Errr… That’s French!
(at least that screenshot)
Ken @ Ken's Tech Tips
/ May 20, 2010You can actually already do this using the “Google Translate” app providing you have the Voice Search app (I think it’s part of Nexus One, additional download for Desire) installed and the TTS Service installed. Combined with the new text recognition and translation built into Goggles, you never need to learn a different language again!