Google updates Google Translate apps for Android

BANGALORE, INDIA: Search engine giant Google has announced an update for its Google Translation app for Android.

Google had announced the translaton app for Android earlier this year with two languages. With the recent update, Google said, it can support 14 additional languages.

Also read: Google, Visa launch Google Wallet app for Android

The supported languages are Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish.

In January, Google had announced an experimental feature called Conversation Mode for Google Translate for Android, which enable user to translate sentences into different languages.

Also read: Google Android market is top store for developers

"Mobile technology and the web have made it easier for people around the world to access information and communicate with each other. But there's still a daunting obstacle: the language barrier. We're trying to knock down that barrier so everyone can communicate and connect more easily," said Jeff Chin, product manager at Google in a blog post.

Google further added that the updated technology is still in alpha and factors like background noise and regional accents may affect accuracy for the translation app.

"While we work to expand full Conversation Mode to even more languages, Google Translate for Android still supports text translation among 63 languages, voice input in 17 of those languages, and text-to-speech in 24 of them," added Chin.