Cell phone translator - holy mole!
Recently, I installed Google Translate app on my cell phone to try with my Mexican (no english) cousin in law.
It was astonishing!
The app can translate "live". You speak into the cell phone and the phone "speaks" the translation. At the same time, it provides a screen print of the translation. Works both ways; english to spanish and spanish to english.
Cousin took to it right away and we had a blast. Where there was previously only my belabored spanish, we began conversing back and forth and both of us became more adept at attempting to speak each others language without the translator.
Furthermore, while visiting an English only museum in Phoenix, cousin pointed the phone camera at printed information, taking a photo of the print information - which Google Translate then translated into a screen print in Spanish.
The future is here!
(The Universal Translator of Captain Kirk's Star Trek got nothin' on us.)
It was astonishing!
The app can translate "live". You speak into the cell phone and the phone "speaks" the translation. At the same time, it provides a screen print of the translation. Works both ways; english to spanish and spanish to english.
Cousin took to it right away and we had a blast. Where there was previously only my belabored spanish, we began conversing back and forth and both of us became more adept at attempting to speak each others language without the translator.
Furthermore, while visiting an English only museum in Phoenix, cousin pointed the phone camera at printed information, taking a photo of the print information - which Google Translate then translated into a screen print in Spanish.
The future is here!
(The Universal Translator of Captain Kirk's Star Trek got nothin' on us.)
