Soon, however, that may not be the case.įranz Och, the head of Google’s translation services, is leading the project to develop new smartphone software that will capture speech, translate it, send it from one phone to another, and then speak it aloud. You still need to be close enough to someone to have them see your phone or hear it speak. This setting provides two spoken languages but no real telecommunication capabilities. Google’s initiative is based around its already popular Google Translate app, which now features a new setting called 'Conversation Mode.' Currently available only in English and Spanish, one person speaks an English sentence into the phone and it is automatically translated into spoken Spanish. You say something in one language into your phone, and people on the other end can hear the translated version on their phones. Instantaneous and conversational spoken translations have been a linguistic challenge for years, but now Google and NTT DoCoMo (the main Japanese mobile phone operator) are working on developing software for a phone that can do just that. But you still need to physically show other people the screen of your phone or have them within earshot. Some can even speak back the translations.
Translating speech into different languages is now also easily possible on your iPhone or Android phones.īut what about instantaneously translating speech and then sending it over the phone? Current speech translation apps take your spoken words and translate them into text. Just go to Google Translate and enter any sentence. It’s easy to instantaneously translate text online.
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