{"id":6541,"date":"2015-03-03T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:47:29","slug":"language-barrier-is-no-more-thanks-to-google-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/language-barrier-is-no-more-thanks-to-google-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Language barrier is no more thanks to Google app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-translate-via-fotos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-translate-via-fotos.jpg\" alt=\"google translate via fotos\" width=\"447\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-translate-via-fotos.jpg 447w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-translate-via-fotos-225x166.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-translate-via-fotos-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nStruggle with language issues when you&#8217;re traveling, trying to chat up a potential foreign love or doing business? Struggle no more, there&#8217;s an app for that! Google Translate on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&#038;hl=en\">Android<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-translate\/id414706506?mt=8\">iPhone<\/a> instantly translates conversations &#038; signs \u2013 even when there&#8217;s no internet connection. See real-time translations of words your camera sees. Or set up instant audio translation with a couple of clicks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h2OfQdYrHRs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Barak Turovsky, <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/hallo-hola-ola-more-powerful-translate.html\">product lead for Google Translate explains<\/a> how this works once you&#8217;ve put the app in conversation mode: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;simply tap the mic to start speaking in a selected language, then tap the mic again, and the Google Translate app will automatically recognize which of the two languages are being spoken&#8230; For the rest of the conversation, you won\u2019t need to tap the mic again \u2014 it&#8217;ll be ready as you need it. Asking for directions to the Rive Gauche, ordering bacalhau in Lisbon, or chatting with your grandmother in her native Spanish just got a lot faster&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time some of these advanced features, like camera translations and conversation mode, will be available for iOS users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so your phone is a little bigger than the Star Trek badge the Enterprise crew used for the same functionality but still \u2013 you have to admit this is extremely cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggle with language issues when you&#8217;re traveling, trying to chat up a potential foreign love or doing business? Struggle no more, there&#8217;s an app for that! Google Translate on Android or iPhone instantly translates conversations &#038; signs \u2013 even when there&#8217;s no internet connection. See real-time translations of words your camera sees. Or set up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/language-barrier-is-no-more-thanks-to-google-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language barrier is no more thanks to Google app&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,16],"tags":[1634,1766,1765,1763,1764],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-transformation","tag-conversation","tag-instant","tag-interpret","tag-star-trek","tag-translate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}