During today’s live event from Paris, Google announced a number of fresh translation features, including improved contextual search, a redesigned iOS app, and seamless AR translation with Google Lens.
The search giant improves contextual translations into English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. This means that words and phrases with multiple meanings will be translated based on the context of the text. This is a great way to make sure your sentence sounds natural and that you are using idiomatic words. It works a bit like this Tongue AND Context reversed.
It can also be helpful to avoid using an offensive or hateful meaning of a phrase when you are not fluent in the language. Google said this update will roll out in the coming weeks and will support more languages in the coming months.
Last year, the company updated the Google Translate app for Android with a fresh look in line with its “Material You” design system. Now it brings fresh features and a refreshed user interface to the iOS app. The updated app has a gigantic microphone button at the bottom center, allowing users to easily enter text using their voice. The iOS app also introduces a vigorous font that makes translations more readable as you type. Additionally, the redesign makes it easier to select languages with fewer clicks.
Moreover, the redesigned app adds gestures such as swiping down to access recent translations and holding the language button to quickly select the most recently used language.
The iOS app also recently added offline translation support for 33 fresh languages, including Basque, Corsican, Hawaiian, Hmong, Kurdish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Sundanese, Yiddish and Zulu.
Last September, Google unveiled a fresh translation feature that seamlessly blends translated text with a background image. This means that if you are translating a poster written in another language, it won’t look out of place. The company is currently rolling out the feature to Android phones with 6GB RAM or more.
In addition, Google also announced the global rollout of multisearch along with improvements to Maps, including immersive views in five fresh cities and the rollout of apparent driving directions to all users.