14 DAY TRIAL // Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced an update to its Google Translate for Android application, with support for more languages than before, and with other improvements as well.
According to the company, the new release of the application was meant to enable users listen to translations in more languages than before.
The company also notes in a recent blog post that the spoken translations have been enhanced for more than 15 languages, to which it added the aforementioned new ones.
“We’ve dramatically improved the quality of our spoken translations in over 15 languages, including Russian, Chinese and Portuguese, and added the ability to listen to three new languages: Japanese, Arabic and Korean,” the company notes in a post on its Google Mobile blog.
One of the most appealing features that the mobile application comes to handsets with would be text-to-speech, the company notes.
It should prove great for those users who are seeking to learn a new phrase in a foreign language, since they can easily tap the Speaker icon to hear the exact translation.
“Text-to-speech is one of the most popular features of this mobile interface,” Google notes in the aforementioned blog post.
Whether you’re learning how to say a foreign phrase, or trying to share information with someone in their language, simply tap the Speaker icon after doing a translation and you’ll hear the difference.”
A few more details on the Google Translate for Android mobile application can be found in the video embedded at the bottom of this article.
“With today’s launch, Google Translate for Android supports translation between 58 languages and can speak translations in 24 languages,” the Internet giant continues.
The mobile software can be downloaded and installed on mobile phones and tablet PCs that run under the Android 2.1 or newer platform. Google Translate for Android was made available in the Android Market here.