Google Translate is improving its instant translation feature. Now you can more easily use the pronunciation and copy-paste options. And no need to wait to enjoy it, everything is in the latest version!
Online for no less than eighteen years already, Google Translate has continued to improve and now relies on the technique of deep learning (“deep learning” in French), which allows it to imitate the functioning of the human brain thanks to a network of artificial neurons. In this way, the AI learns from its mistakes, corrected by Internet users, to improve itself. And suffice to say that the service has progressed in an extraordinary way over the years! Far from being content, like a simple dictionary, to translate into French a word entered from the keyboard of a smartphone, it now recognizes handwriting and can read long news texts published on the Web in a few seconds in the language of our choice and even acts as interpreter to facilitate verbal exchanges, all for free! It’s hardly surprising that Google Translate has become a real reflex for some!
But Google is not resting on its laurels! Last October our colleagues fromAndroid Authority had managed to activate, in the APK of the application, new real-time translation functions. These are finally deployed in the stable version 8.22.46.698958551.3 of Google Translate on mobile.
Google Translate: an improvement in instant translation
One of the key features of Google Translate is Instant Translate, which translates text in real time as you write. The downside is that other actions are limited until you exit the instant translation preview by pressing the Enter key on the virtual keyboard. Can’t hear voice output, copy result, or see definitions and other grammar tips displayed by Google Translate.
With the update, Google Translate now supports the instant display of pronunciation and copy-paste icons – and therefore real-time use of these two functions – and the instant display of the gender of a term and its synonyms, instant display of the “Other translations” field and instant display of the definition of a word.
Additionally, Google Translate allowed us to delete results from our translation history with a swipe, but there was no way to go back if we accidentally deleted an entry we’d rather keep. Now, Google Translate allows us to restore a deleted translation with a single gesture. All these new features are available on the mobile application. Just update it via the Google Play Store or App Store.