Google can already translate over 50 languages. What about Sign Language??? Sooner than you think!
Here's a list of the languages they currently can translate:
Google has a prototype app where you can take a picture with your Android phone. It will digitize the picture into text. Then the text will be translated into any language of your choice. Cool huh?
"Right now this technology only works for German-to-English translations and it's not yet ready for prime time. However, it shows a lot of promise for what the future might hold. Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language. Eventually, we're hoping to build a version of Google Goggles that can translate between all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate — bringing even more information to you on the go."
Here's a list of the languages they currently can translate:
Afrikaans | Danish | Greek | Japanese | Polish | Swedish |
Albanian | Dutch | Haitian Creole | Korean | Portuguese | Thai |
Arabic | English | Hebrew | Latvian | Romanian | Turkish |
Belarusian | Estonian | Hindi | Lithuanian | Russian | Ukrainian |
Bulgarian | Filipino | Hungarian | Macedonian | Serbian | Vietnamese |
Catalan | Finnish | Icelandic | Malay | Slovak | Welsh |
Chinese | French | Indonesian | Maltese | Slovenian | Yiddish |
Croatian | Galician | Irish | Norwegian | Spanish | |
Czech | German | Italian | Persian | Swahili |
Google has a prototype app where you can take a picture with your Android phone. It will digitize the picture into text. Then the text will be translated into any language of your choice. Cool huh?
"Right now this technology only works for German-to-English translations and it's not yet ready for prime time. However, it shows a lot of promise for what the future might hold. Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language. Eventually, we're hoping to build a version of Google Goggles that can translate between all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate — bringing even more information to you on the go."
One day, we willl be able to carry a device that will allow us to communicate with anyone in the world.
