Google Translate

Google Translate is a powerful translation app to offer seamless translation for hundreds of languages. It facilitates the users to communicate while avoiding the language barriers, as it helps to translate nearly 103 languages for online users and 52 languages when you are offline. 

It is free to use and a real-time translator, and is officially available for Android devices by Google. It offers a camera mode to translate 29 languages, and a conversation mode for two-way speech translation. It offers a quick response, regardless of entering the words while typing or using the voice feature.

What is Google Translate?

Google Translate developed by Google, is a quick and smooth utility used to translate text, documents, and even websites while working as a multilingual neural machine translation service. It was launched in 2006 as a statistical machine translation service that is specified only for the transcription of documents of the United States and the European Parliament.

It is a cross-platform utility, and embedded with an API to allow developers build browser extensions and software applications. It translates the text into English first and then converts it into the targeted language. Currently, it supports 249 languages and handles them on different levels. 

Google Translate Features

Text Translation

It is a key feature that allows users to get instant translation for their required text in their desired language. It is the best option for users who give more priority to their text documents, and cannot afford any inconvenience, so they can type the text, such as phrases or sentences in the given field, and convert the text into another language in real-time. In addition, the “Tap to Translate” option is also available to allow users to translate the text of another application by copying it, and convert it with a single click to the Google Translate icon.

Android Camera Support

You can translate your text using the camera of your Android device, simply focus your camera on your desired text, and instantly view translation of your text in your desired language on the screen of your Android device. It is possible to select the text using the image, and the language you want to convert into. In the way, you can easily understand what a text means on any sign, poster, or restaurant menu. It is also possible to translate an image while importing from your device gallery. 

Offline Service

It is the best solution to translate your text, even if you are offline, as the app supports 59 languages for translating your text without an internet connection. The offline capabilities are helpful if you are travelling in a location within low or limited network connection. However, you need to download the specific language packs in advance to ensure the availability of necessary tools for communication. 

Favorite Phrases

It is one of key feature that is accessible using a star-shaped button that is available on the top-left corner of the screen. Simply, click the button, and access to the favorite phrases list. You can add your favorite or desired phrases in the list, and reliably get translated phrases as according to the situation, regardless of location and language. It will help you to save your time while conveying your message to a person with an odd language more reliably. 

Conversation Mode

Avoid all types of language barriers within innovative functionality of bilingual conversations while using the conversation mode. The awesome mode supports 70 languages for converting your dialogues in the language you want to talk. So, it is possible to facilitate a discussion between you and another person in different languages. In addition, enhance your conversation within transcribe feature of the app that supports eight languages for real-time translation of spoken language. 

Streamlined Interface

The software offers a polished and streamlined interface for converting your words in a right synonym, as the app offers accurate word-to-word translation, regardless of the language. However, the translation can have grammatical flaws. In addition of type-to-translate feature, you can also use speak-to-translate option while clicking the small mic icon, and also camera icon is available to capture the image of text and translate it in the language you like. 

Required Permissions 

You need to allow multiple permissions for functioning the Google Translate more reliably such as;

• speech translation requires microphone access
• camera access for translating text via device’s camera
• SMS access for translating text messages
• External storage access to download offline translation data
• Accounts and credentials access to sign-in and sync across multiple devices

Pros

• Supports 249 languages across the world
• Uses camera function for translating text 
• Offline capability is also available
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Polished and streamlined interface
• Offers conversation mode to translate the dialogues of different languages
• Speak-to-translate option is also supported

Cons

• Long sentences may have some grammatical flaws