Google Translate app adds 13 other new languages

Google today announced that the camera translation feature in the iOS and Android Translate APP had been added to support 13 languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese. In a letter replying to VentureBeat, the company spokesperson said that the update has been launched today and will be available to Translate APP users worldwide in the next few days.

The camera translation function of Google Translate APP also supports Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, languages in Southeast Asia such as Thai and Vietnamese. In 2015, Google introduced the camera translation function in the Translate APP. The first batch supports 27 languages. Users use mobile phone cameras to shoot billboards or menus, which can be converted into the user’s native language in real time.

The introduction of a new translation feature, including computer vision, today uses Neural Machine Translation (NMT), the neural network used to upgrade offline translation earlier this year.