Google Translate's Word Lens learns Japanese

The ever-impressive Word Lens becomes even more useful with the ability to translate Japanese instantly and visually.

Google Translate app lerns Word Lens image translation tricks

If you recall Word Lens it was one of the most amazing apps of the past years, and once it was acquired by Google we all knew it was just a matter of time until it find its way into Google Translate. And a few months later, here it is.

Google Translate App for iPhone

Google recently updated its Google Translate App for iPhone, which now becomes a lot more interesting and useful.

Google's Translate App can now perform voice recognition in 15 different languages, translate words and phrases into over 50 languages (of which, 23 can be "spoken out loud".)

You can also mark phrases as favorites, so you can use them frequently at ease, and there's also a landscape mode that makes it easier to show a translated text to someone else.

The only catch? Well... Google seems to think Portuguese is actually Portuguese from Brasil (a completely different accent) - which makes it almost impossible for it to recognize "proper" Portuguese. ;P

But I'm not complaining... it's an amazing App, and highly recommended for every traveller. Now... if we could only forget those insanely expensive roaming data rates.

Google Translate gets Better

The Internet is a world wide tool, and we can't presume everyone speaks (or is willing to speak) english in order to be understood.

That's why toold like Google Translate are essential for a better understanding between all the different people around the planet.

Now Google Translate is even better with realtime translations as you're typing.

If you translate something to english, you can now listen to it...

And if your chinese is rusty, you can also see a phonetic representation of the chinese symbols.