Google Translate just added a cool new feature that allows you to easily create a personalized phrasebook with the phrases and sentences you want to memorize and/or find yourself translating repeatedly. As the Google Translate team notes in today’s announcement, the idea here is to allow you to jumpstart the process of committing the translation to memory by “allowing you to save the most useful phrases to you, for easy reference later on, exactly when you need them.”
It's unlikely that you speak Mandarin, but that doesn't mean you won't need to at some point. Now, Microsoft has created software that can analyze your speech, translate it and then spit out a new recording of your very own voice speaking in a different language.
It isn't witchcraft though: it's just damned clever, and a major advance in speech analysis compared to what we usually see. It's not easy, of course. To reach a stage where this is possible requires providing the software with hours of a single person's voice. This isn't something that can be used by just anyone, casually.
Most of us have faced that terror of being trapped in a foreign country with little understanding or comprehension of the language.
Whether it is a parking sign that makes no sense, or a menu that is all Greek to you, an app for Android and iPhone could be the solution by translating words on-the-fly with the help of your camera lens.
WordLens uses your phone's inbuilt camera to recognise text that is viewed through the lens, and then translating them to English.
A new iPhone app aims to remove the language barriers users face while traveling abroad. SayHi is a translation app available in Apple’s App Store that flawlessly translates a user’s spoken words into one of 33 different languages and dialects. The app was released almost two weeks ago and is already the No.1 business app in the App Store, with a four and a half star rating from more than 1,600 individuals. While at times there are a few hiccups, as with any app, the program worked as intended during our tests and did so in a reasonable amount of time. SayHi is available for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 4.3 or later, and can be had for $0.99 in Apple’s App Store.
Google Translate has reached a milestone of 200 million users on translate.google.com. Ordinarily, we wouldn’t report a basic usage statistic like that, but this one deserves to be celebrated. Google's scale could someday make it possible for all human beings to understand each other. Here's how.
App icon design is easily one of the most important aspects of an app. When you’ve put your app in an app store, the icon represents that app, if it is awfully designed or isn’t eye catching then people just won’t be interested. Also having a bad looking icon can make the app look unprofessional, so people won’t even bother. I know that I won’t even bother downloading an app unless it has a good app icon. If you can’t hire an epic icon designer, take the minimal route and create a simple but representative app icon. Here are 30 great examples of app icon designs.
As more Twitter users flock to the site worldwide, it’s only natural that the social network roll out an option that allows you to read tweets beyond your native language.
Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that automatically translates tweets into various languages with the help of Bing Translator.
