Google Translate was recently released for iOS devices. It was first introduced back in 2008 as an HTML5 web app for the iPhone but it is now available as a native iOS app. It has all the same features along with some new additions to help improve its overall usability as well. Similar to other Google apps, it is free to download. With Google Translate you can translate up to 57 languages in text-only form with the ability to recognize up to 15 different languages spoken into the app. The software can also speak 23 languages out loud. Hopefully future versions will have the ability to understand and speak every supported language instead of fragmenting them the way they have in this version. Despite a limited number of languages spoken, the app is quite impressive nonetheless. Everyone will have the ability to save their favorite phrases by pressing the star next to the translated text. These starred favorites are accessible offline, so if you have to be in airplane mode, you will still have access to them. The zoom icon allows you to go full screen mode – a useful feature for if you need to show someone text that you can’t pronounce correctly. Google translate also supports non-Latin script languages like Japanese, and gives you the translation in Kanji characters and phonetically in Latin script as well. When the concept of a universal translator was first introduced in Star Trek back in the late 1960?s, it seemed nothing more than science fiction and wishful thinking. Google Translate’s release is slowly turning that wish into a reality. This specific version of Google Translate doesn’t quite measure up to the universal translators found on the Starship Enterprise quite yet, but it is an impressive first step in the right direction. Science fiction of the past is slowly becoming the science reality of today. This is the first version of Google Translate, just imagine what it will look like in a few years. [Source: Google] Authors:

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