Google's translator app is arguably better compared to Microsoft's Android translator app. However, things are changing, as the Redmond tech behemoth has upgraded its translator app for Android devices enabling it to translate texts in photographs.
Android users can now use images taken with their device camera or photographs taken earlier and just need to tell the app to translate them. Hence if one is traveling by road, but is not able to understand the signs in foreign languages, they need not worry any longer. Microsoft's Android translator app will tell them what the signs denote!
Previously, it was possible to translate any text by typing it into the app, but now Microsoft has made things simpler. In order to upgrade its Android translator app, Microsoft has included two new features in the software. Now, Microsoft Translator for Android can translate text in saved images, besides offering an option which helps the user to translate texts anywhere on their phone, PC Mag reported.
In fact, the inline translation feature of the app is available as an option along with cut, copy, and paste when one highlights text. Moreover, Microsoft Android Translator update also pushes up the downloadable languages for offline use to 43.
The image translation facility was offered by Microsoft's iOS app since February. In addition, the facility was also available on Windows Phone app since 2010. According to Microsoft, the latest upgrade for its translator app for Android devices will not call for users to type text or say the foreign languages phrases any longer. A blog post by the Redmond tech titan says that henceforth users will be able to translate pictures right away from their phone. The translation will appear in the form of an overlay above the existing text, Yahoo reported.
All said and done, all translation features in apps are dissimilar. The Google's Translator app works with only live images taken with the device's camera and compares the appearance of the translated text with the source of the font. Conversely, to use the Microsoft Androids Translator users need to take a picture by overlaying the translated text over the image using a default font.
