![]() ![]() How We Made It In Africa offers an interview with Glenn Stein, a young entrepreneur who created Aweza, an iOS and Android app that translates phrases into the 11 official South African languages. And it isn’t only the big companies that excel at creating useful apps. In a multinational, multicultural world, language apps will be a hot item. The system also offers functionality much like Microsoft Skype Translator. The Android Police story says that the initial rollout of Live Translate will translate both ways between English and French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The app translates what a phone sees through its camera lens and shows it on the display, according to Android Police.Ī demo at Google Play shows the system in action. The words are then put through a Bing-based translation engine and a text-to-speech engine delivers the translated words.Īnother interesting and undoubtedly useful translation app is available from Google, which bought the developer of the Word Lens app in May. In essence, Skype uses Microsoft’s neural network to translate the words to text. Thankfully, that’s bound to change when this feature is fully baked. On top of that, this preview program only works on Windows 8.x and the Windows 10 Technical Preview, so Skype fans on other platforms are currently left out in the cold. While it can translate instant messages in any of over 40 languages, this early build can only translate voice chat in Spanish and English. ![]() The story says that it “has a long way to go before it’s ready for prime time” but that the preview shows that the company is headed in the right direction: ExtremeTech reports that a new version of Microsoft’s Skype Translator can translate on the fly. Great progress is being made in the world of translation apps. ![]()
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