Microsoft takes on Google with Translator app

MUMBAI, INDIA: Google’s translator app has new competition!

Microsoft has launched a new app named Translator, which supports 50 languages and supports phones, tablets, Apple Watch and smart watches that run Android Wear. The app is also available iOS and Android platforms.

With Translator, you can speak directly into your watch to get an instant translation in any of the 50 different languages.

The app can correctly pronounce the phrase for you through your watch. And all your translations and settings are synchronized between your watch and your phone.

One can type or speak the word or phrase to be translated. In response, the app shows the translated text on the screen and then speaks it too. The text can also be copy-pasted from and to other apps for translation.

Microsoft has already been serving up language translation via its Bing website along with apps for its Windows Phone mobile operating system and its Windows 10 desktop software.

We believe that the app can prove to be its USP since Google’s Translate app supports 27 languages for text and voice conversion. What do you feel?