The user can then press the microphone button again to respond in their native tongue and have it immediately translated to the foreign language.įrom this point forward, the app will recognize both languages as they are spoken and will translate them each time a phrase is uttered.

If speech in a foreign language is detected first it will be immediately translated into the user's native language, spoken aloud and displayed on-screen. In order to use the real-time speech translation in a conversational setting, users need only open the app and press the microphone button. The new version of the app can act as a real-time translator between two people speaking in different languages.

It could only translate one phrase at a time, however. Voice translation has been available as part of the Android version of the Google Translate app since the back end of 2013. Its most recent update includes seamless conversation and foreign text translation. Google Translate, however, is fast becoming that device. Not so long ago, the idea of a universal language translation device making the jump from science fiction to reality seemed preposterous.

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