In recent years, Google Translate's mobile app, released in 2010, has worked a similar magic in the real world. It effortlessly erases borders of understanding as you navigate across the internet, from a Spanish newspaper to a Chinese e-commerce site. While many may use it to complete their foreign-language homework - again, apologies to my high-school Italian teacher - it is integrated into so much of what we do, from Gmail to Chrome and elsewhere. Since it was introduced in 2006, Google Translate has become an indispensable part of the internet. It may not be sexy, but Google Translate is the one app I can't live without. Nothing is a substitute for true fluency when traveling, but new and improving technologies are getting closer to bridging the gap. That's not for lack of trying - apologies to my high-school Italian teacher. It may surprise you, but I'm adept at speaking only one language: English. That's a lot of difficult languages to understand. It often indicates a user profile.Īs Business Insider's international correspondent, I've spent the past six months traveling through Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Greece, Israel, and Russia, among other places. In addition, users can also try snapping a picture of the text they would like translated - the Google Translate app has a total of 37 languages in camera mode.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. The Google Translate App will knock down a few more language barriers, helping users communicate better and get the information they need, real time and without a data connection. Also users can now translate English printed text into Hindi and Thai.īarak Turovsky, Product Lead, Google Translate said, "More than half of the content on the Internet is in English, but only around 20 per cent of the world's population speaks English. Users can now translate to and from English and Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. The original seven languages are English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Google is also updating the Google Translate app, expanding the instant visual translation to 20 other languages (making for a total of 27 languages), and making real-time voice translations a lot faster and smoother, so even more people can experience the world in their language.
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