Google Translate for Android brings all of the utility of Google’s online service to your mobile phone for instant translations when on the go.
The translation app for Android is really simple to use and if you have ever tried it online, you’ll have no problems at all. Google Translate supports the same languages as the original – over 50 in fact – so all you have to do is choose your language combination, write what you want to say and Google Translate will give you the translation immediately.
Depending on the language combination, Google Translate will also display some grammatical information and a text-to-speech feature which will read the translation out loud. The app also makes it very easy to copy and paste the translations. You’ll have access to past translations via the History button, while the SMS Translation feature will immediately offer you the ability to translate any of the messages in your inbox.
One of Google Translate’s coolest aspects, however, is Conversation Mode, an alpha feature that lets you speak, translates what it hears and plays it back to the listener in their own language. As you can tell from the alpha tag, it’s still at a very early stage of development and it’s only available between English/Spanish. Even so, it’s awesome and a really, really interesting feature that we should all keep a close eye on in the future.
Google Translate is the perfect app for multilingual Android users.
