Google adds Word Lens image translation to its Translate app
It’s update day at Google. The Mountain View based company has pushed out an update to its Translate app, integrating Word Lens image translation.
Google had acquired Word Lens last year in May, and 8 months later, you can now translate text from images using the Translate app. All you have to do is open the Translate app, tap on the Camera button and point the phone’s camera at the image you want to translate the text from. Apart from English, the app currently supports image text translation to and from six other languages – French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. More languages will be added later on.
Google has also sorted its Conversation translation using some black magic – it will now let both the speakers speak one after the other and figure it all out on its own without either of the two speakers having to interfere with the app itself.
The update is rolling out in the Play store in stages, so you should have it soon-ish if you don’t already have it.
