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Google Translate can now visually translate 13 more languages

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The app supports nearly 50 languages now

   By Makena Kelly@kellymakena Oct 11, 2018, 5:08pm EDT
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   Starting this week, the Google Translate app will be capable of
   visually translating 13 new languages by using the camera on your
   smartphone, according to a report from VentureBeat.

   In 2015, Google added the visual translation feature to the Translate
   app with the support of 27 different languages. It allows users to
   translate dinner menus and signs in real time, making communicating
   abroad much easier. This week’s announcement adds Punjabi, Bengali,
   Vietnamese, Thai, Gujarati, Kannada, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, and
   Malayalam, putting the total number of supported languages close to 50.

   Users can access the feature in the Translate app by navigating to the
   camera icon on the home screen. The app will then prompt you to line up
   the text you’re attempting to translate and take a photo. After that,
   the app will scan the text with the use of a machine learning technique
   known as Neural Machine Translation (NMT), which will then provide a
   (hopefully correct) translation into the language of your choice.

   The new additions will be available on both the iOS and Android
   versions of the app, and they started rolling out to devices yesterday.

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