Google Translate

Still mostly accessible. There are a lot of porrly label buttons but are easily to understand in what they do. Works as advertised and still a great app for translation.

What's New in Version 2.1.0

• Native iOS 7 support: new keyboard and status bar
• Handwriting input for more languages: Arabic, Esperanto, Gujarati, Hebrew, Javanese, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Persian, Punjabi, Telugu, Zulu

 

This is pretty cool to try out. The first thing you will find is that there are some VoiceOver accessibilities issue with this version. There are some areas you will find elements that will not do anything but a click. Plus, there are some unlabeled buttons in some areas of the app. Lastly, you will need to use the touch around the screen because swiping left or right will not work. However, I didn't find it hard to do what I wanted. For example, doing the LIVE voice translation is quite remarkable. I can start in english and then it is follow by what I said in the language I had it set to. Now speak in the language like Spanish and then it will speak it back in English. Very awesome. Remember that you can also use the camera to take a picture of something you want to capture and translate back to you. So a very fastinating app to try out. So a job well done by Google. Now we just need some work for the VoiceOver portion of the app.

What's New in Version 3.1.0

• Word Lens: Just point your camera to a sign or text and the Translate app will instantly translate the text, even without Internet/data connection. Currently
available in: English ↔ French, English ↔ German, English ↔ Italian, English ↔ Portuguese, English ↔ Russian, English ↔ Spanish.
• Camera Mode: Snap a photo, highlight the text, and get a translation. Currently available in 36 languages.
• Automatic language detection in speech/conversation mode - start translating with speech input and Translate will recognize which of the two languages
is being spoken, allowing you to have a more fluid conversation with another person.

Great job on making voice translaton available, but in this version I can not select languages when performing text translation. Has anyone found a solution for that? How do you choose original and translation languages in the text translation part of the app?

A very nice update indeed!

What's New in Version 3.3.0

• Improved stability. Fixed crash bugs.
• Improved support for the VoiceOver screen reader.
• Word Lens: Just point your camera to a sign or text and the Translate app will instantly translate the text, even without Internet/data connection. Currently
available in: English ⇄ French, English ⇄ German, English ⇄ Italian, English ⇄ Portuguese, English ⇄ Russian, English ⇄ Spanish.
• Camera Mode: Snap a photo, highlight the text, and get a translation. Currently available in 36 languages.
• Automatic language detection in speech/conversation mode - start translating with speech input and Translate will recognize which of the two languages
is being spoken, allowing you to have a more fluid conversation with another person.

Updated
September 2nd
Version
4.1.0
What's New in Version 4.1.0
Improved stability. Fixed crash bugs.
Smoother conversation in 40 languages. Improved accessibility support.
Instantly translate printed text in 20 new languages with your camera:
TO/FROM English:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
FROM English to:
Hindi, Thai

I used it but found it to be complicated. I found the one from microsoft.com translator to be easy and more acessible. Check it out.

What's New in Version 5.0.0

Offline translation in 52 languages
Instant camera translation: English to/from Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
13 new languages

Hi to everyone,

I was wondering if anyone here uses Google Translate a lot? I occasionally use it for work when translating items from English to French. Being a french speaking person, sometimes, you kind of need help translating on some tricky words or sentences.

Now one feature I use to love with Google Translate is that you could have a translation of a live conversation. What you would usually need to do is open the app, select the languages you would like to translate and tap on the "Translate Conversation" button, you are then brought to another window, where you would have buttons at the bottom, one called "Listen" and the other two were the languages you had selected previously. When brought to this window, you would also hear a chime indicating that the app is listening. You could then say something in the language you would like to translate from and the app would repeat it, with a nice female robotic voice,the same sentence in the language you wanted it to translate to. Being a French Canadian, let's just say I would select to translate from English to French. Now afgter the app would translate that first sentence, if you tapped on the "Listen" button, then the mic would stay on and you could then have one person speaking English, then have the app translate your sentence in French, then have the other person speaking French, respond and then have the app translate their response in English, then you could simply continue speaking back and forth until you stopped the app.

Now all of this to say that, wanting to show this to a colleague, I tried it and this time, it doesn't seem to work anymore. I can start the live listen and speak something in English and have it translated in French, but when I would say something in French, it would repeat, sometimes not even the same words, but in French. Almost as if the app would listen to my French sentence, thinking it was being said in English and would try to translate it into French.

Now I don't know if anyone else uses this feature, I know I don't always use it, but it can be handy at times, but has anyone else encountered this bug?

Thanks!