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#161707 16-Jan-2015 18:29
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hours of fun !

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-translate-babel-fish-from-hitchhikers-guide-2015-1

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7551061/google-translate-app-ios-android-hands-on

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  #1216385 16-Jan-2015 23:36
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Yea they've built in Wordlens after taking over that company.

I am waiting for Chinese for an upcoming trip to China, would be useful to know what I'm eating..




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  #1216401 17-Jan-2015 03:01
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Woof woof meow

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  #1216416 17-Jan-2015 08:26
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ScuL: Yea they've built in Wordlens after taking over that company.

I am waiting for Chinese for an upcoming trip to China, would be useful to know what I'm eating..


it has Chinese, Japanese, you name it. even Arabic.



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  #1216417 17-Jan-2015 08:30
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joker97:
ScuL: Yea they've built in Wordlens after taking over that company.

I am waiting for Chinese for an upcoming trip to China, would be useful to know what I'm eating..


it has Chinese, Japanese, you name it. even Arabic.



Not with the word lens feature.. Yet.
Meaning that it can translate signs on the fly




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  #1216421 17-Jan-2015 08:58
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I read about it over on PetaPixel, and was amazed it is a self-contained app — it doesn't need an internet connection to work its magic.  I thought that bit was 'very' impressive.




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  #1216423 17-Jan-2015 09:17
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You can get it on the iPhone.  I am pretty sure that uses an internet connection as there is a delay for the real time translation.  

No Klingon yet, but it does do Latin which is useful.




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  #1216425 17-Jan-2015 09:24
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ScuL:
joker97:
ScuL: Yea they've built in Wordlens after taking over that company.

I am waiting for Chinese for an upcoming trip to China, would be useful to know what I'm eating..


it has Chinese, Japanese, you name it. even Arabic.



Not with the word lens feature.. Yet.
Meaning that it can translate signs on the fly


I thought it did when I tried it last night?

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  #1216438 17-Jan-2015 09:59
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Yep - latest version can do OCR and translate on signs.
It still needs an internet connection for audio output though.




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  #1216504 17-Jan-2015 13:32
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Unless I'm doing something wrong no Chinese here, (well of course for plain text, but not through the lens!)




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  #1216517 17-Jan-2015 14:05
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The Camera function of translate is the newly acquired 'word lens' which only does the languages indicated. You need to look at the written and spoken translate features to see the languages they cover.




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  #1216558 17-Jan-2015 15:11
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Try using English to Chinese (simplified or traditional) - that works on the iPhone. 




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  #1216577 17-Jan-2015 15:31
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you mean chinese to english?

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  #1216641 17-Jan-2015 18:38
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Chinese to english works fine on android.

I was using it last night to try to translate some chinese datasheets. Got the characters fine and made english that sort of makes sense if you already have an idea what the would be trying to mean. "Over pressure not to explode" and things like that




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  #1216755 18-Jan-2015 00:29
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Tried English to Chinese with the camera option, no result. Chinese to English doesn't do anything either.
I'm on Translate 3.1.0.RC06.83908714 on Android




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  #1216773 18-Jan-2015 07:01
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I'm on iphone

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