Google Translate app can now help travellers visually translate printed text instantly in 27 languages around the globe. These languages include Swedish and Finnish.
When on the road, users simply have to open the android app and hover their camera's lens to the signboard, paper, or anything that need translations. They can also speak or type the word or the sentence, CNET reported.
With the update set to be released on the coming days, Google has admitted that users may encounter some glitches on the newly improved product but promised that the advancement will improve over time with the participation of the global community.
Also, Google welcomes inputs from native language speakers through the Translate Community, a portal where people can enter Google's mistranslation and supply a more appropriate term.
The team behind this advancement hopes to lessen global barriers by advancing the technology in communication and they are only starting. Half of the content on the internet is in English, but only 20 percent of the world's population speaks the language.
Back in January, the company introduced the Google Translate App that can visually translate English to and from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish using the camera lens.
Starting this week, smartphone users can translate English to and from Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Users can also do one-way translations from English to Hindi and Thai.
The feature is designed for both Android and iOs.