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Google Translate Brings English To Hindi Instant Visual Translation

This is of great help especially for those people in the rural part of India who know very little of English.

 

While Google Translate app on your smartphone already allows you to visually translate printed text in seven languages, the company has come up with an update on Wednesday which expands instant visual translation to 20 more languages including Hindi.

Giving more importance to the Indian market, the company has improved the translation experience for Indian users and this move looks significant as India is a very important market for the company.

Along with Hindi, the recent update also supports 19 other languages - Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Thai. However, Hindi and Thai are currently supporting only one-way translations from English and not vice-versa.

Earlier, Google supported seven languages - English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

All you need to do is just open the Google Translate app, click on the camera and point it at the text you need to translate - a street sign, ingredient list, instruction manual or even dials on a washing machine. You would be able to see the text transforming live on your screen with no Internet connection required.

This reminds us of Bing Translator for Phone which has quite similar features, however, it seems to have a few less language support even though there's an option to download basic language packs for offline use.

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Along with this, Google has announced that the latest update would be making real-time voice translations a lot faster and smoother. Having said this, Google's picture mode translation which requires a snapshot of text can also operate in 37 languages which may open the roads for many.

So, how this instant visual translation actually work? Well, the answer takes us back to 2014 when Google acquired WordLens which is the master brain behind recognizing printed words using its optical character recognition capabilities and instantly translating these words in to the desired language.

The neural nets have all kinds of records in image recognition which means that if you are translating a foreign menu or sign with the latest version of Google's Translate app, you are using a deep neural net. But, surprisingly, it can work on your phone without an Internet connection.

Well, here's how.

First, When a camera image comes in, the app finds the letters in the picture by weeding out the background objects like trees or cards. It looks at blobs of pixels that have similar colour to each other that are also near other similar blobs of pixels. Those are possibly letters, and if they’re near each other, that makes a continuous line we should read.

Second step is where the deep learning comes in. This is where the app recognizes what each letter actually is.

Next, the app tries to take those recognized letters and look in to the dictionary for translations.

Finally, the translation is rendered on top of the original words in the same style as the original in just a matter of seconds.

In case if you are interested to know more on how this technology actually works (in-depth), you can check it out here.


TAGS: Google Translate

 
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