In January, Google integrated the “Word Lens” feature into the Google Translate mobile app with support for 7 languages. “Word Lens” translates large printed text when you place the camera in front of ...

Google has started rolling out a new version of its Translate app with a feature that allows you to create more accurate ...

The Google Word Lens app is now available in Japanese. You’ll never have to worry about taking a wrong turn on a busy Shibuya street or ordering something you wouldn’t normally eat. The Google ...

A man uses a Google vocal translate app on his smartphone during a Google promotion event at the City of Fashion and Design (Cite de la mode et du design) in Paris on November 4, 2014. Credit: THOMAS ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As Google Translate celebrates ten years of existence, Google has now ...

The word translating platform of Google has been widely used by smartphone users due to its expansive features and wide languages to choose from. Not to mention that it is also easy to use, to begin ...

QuestVisual has just released Word Lens, a standalone £2.99/$4.99 iPhone app that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to identify words in images, and then translate them. The app exploits ...

The Look Up feature in iOS, which lets you tap on a word and look it up in the dictionary, the web, Wikipedia, and more, is one of the most useful things about reading on an iPhone or iPad. But did ...

One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. As ...