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Now an iPhone app that translates languages
Sunday July 15, 2012 11:43:58 PM,
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London: If you are on
foreign shores trying to interpret a parking sign or a menu in
vain, then an application for Android and iPhone could help you in
translation of the printed words with your camera lens.
WordLens uses your phone's inbuilt camera to recognise text that
is viewed through the lens, and then translating them to English,
from three European languages, namely French, Spanish and Italian.
WordLens uses text recognition to work out what the word or phrase
is, and then automatic translation software translates it into the
new language. The translation is then pasted over the original
location, practically in real time.
The application has been available on the iPhone with Spanish
translation for about 18 months, but is now available on both
major smartphone platforms with the new range of languages, the
Daily Mail reported.
A promotional video for the application which shows it instantly
translating a number of signs in both languages has already gone
viral on internet. One visitor to technology website Mashable
wrote: "This is probably the greatest augmented reality I've seen
yet. To add layers and distinguish things is amazing. But
photoshop translated words in well, that's incredible."
Not every phrase translated in the application is grammatically
correct. But the speed and accuracy of the software is still good
enough to make sense of simple road signs or restaurant menus.
Otavio Good, one of the developers behind the WordLens, told
TechCrunch: "It tries to find out what the letters are and then
looks in the dictionary. Then it draws the words back on the
screen in translation."
WordLens bears some similarities to Google's own application
called 'Google Goggles', which lets users take a picture of a
phrase and then search the web using that word.
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