Try Google Goggles and Translate App When Traveling
Traveling to another country can be a great time. The opportunity to immerse yourself in a different world can give you a new look on life. But, it can be hard to fully enjoy the experience if you do not understand the foreign language. For example, ordering food from a menu you can not read can be an adventure. Google just introduced a new feature of Google Goggles that will prove useful to travelers and monoglots everywhere: Goggles translation.
Here’s how the Droid Application works:
Point your phone at a word or phrase. Use the region of interest button to draw a box around specific words Press the shutter button If Goggles recognizes the text, it will give you the option to translate Press the translate button to select the source and destination languages.
The first Goggles translation prototype was unveiled earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and could only recognize German text. Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages. Google says they are hard at work extending the recognition capabilities to other Latin-based languages. The goal is to eventually read non-Latin languages (such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic) as well.
Every new release of Google Goggles contains at least one new feature and a large number of improvements to our existing functionality. In addition to translation, Goggles v1.1 features improved barcode recognition, a larger corpus of artwork, recognition of many more products and logos, an improved user interface (UI), and the ability to initiate visual searches using images in a users phone’s photo gallery.
Computer vision is a tuff project. While Goggles v1.1, Google says that there are many images that Goggles cannot yet recognize. The Google Goggles team is working on solving the technical challenges required to make computers and smartphone see. We hope you are as excited as we are about the possibilities of visual search.
Google Goggles v1.1 is available on Motorola, Verizon Wireless Droids and Mobile Devices running Android 1.6 and higher. To download, users can san the QR code below or go to the Android Market app on your phone and search for “Google Goggles”.
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