Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen

Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by s_henry_paulson on Monday September 24, 2012 @07:24AM (#4564078)

Word lens and google translate are incompatible.

The only real feature aside from basic OCR that Word Lens offers is that they make the "translation" appear in the same area where the original words were.

This only works because they only translate words, they don't translate what is actually being said.

If word lens were to attempt to do any actual translation, the amount of text would be greatly different, and the gimmickyness of their product would vanish.

Google translate wants to actually translate one thing from another. Word lens wants to translate individual words to help you get a basic idea of what something might say, which preserving it's futuristic gimmick.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by mtgx on Monday September 24, 2012 @07:37AM (#4564102)

I think Google could do something similar to what they did to Voice recognition in Jelly Bean. They managed to make 80% of their voice engine work offline. If they can do that with voice, I think they can do that with their dictionaries.

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Re:Google Translate in Android: Point, tap, brush, listen by eurleif on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:14AM (#4564207)

>If they can do that with voice, I think they can do that with their dictionaries.

This feature uploads images to Google to do the OCR. That's the biggest problem here.

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