Google announces translate app for iPhone

BANGALORE, INDIA: Search engine giant Google has announced the availiability of Google translate app for iPhone users.

Aimed at iPhone users, the improved translate app can be used to tranalate and communicate in different languages.

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"The new app has all of the features of the web app, plus some significant new additions designed to improve your overall translation experience," said Wenzhang Zhu, Software Engineer in a blog post.

Some of the feature of the app includes:

Speak to translate: The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and–just like the web app–one can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. For voice input, just press the microphone icon next to the text box and say what you want to translate.

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Listen to your translations: You can also listen to your translations spoken out loud in one of 23 different languages. This feature uses the same new speech synthesizer voices as the desktop version of Google Translate we introduced last month.

Full-screen mode: Another feature that might come in handy is the ability to easily enlarge the translated text to full-screen size. This way, it’s much easier to read the text on the screen, or show the translation to the person you are communicating with. Just tap on the zoom icon to quickly zoom in.