August 18, 2013

New languages added to Google Translate app

There are now 34 supported languages for image camera input translation.

By Duncan Macrae

Google has added four languages to the image camera input translation within the Google Translate app for Android.

Users can now take pictures of Greek, Afrikaans, Hebrew and Serbian text and have it translated by the search engine. Specific sections of the image can also be highlighted for translation.

There are now 34 supported languages for image camera input translation.

Google has also added Hindi and Thai to its handwriting translation tool within the Google Translate app for Android. This brings the total of handwrite languages supported to 48 languages.

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