Google Translate is a powerful tool that can do much more than simply translate a Web page or a few lines of text. But many are unaware of its capabilities & fail to use it to its full potential. Many of Google Translate features are new & add functionality to existing apps & services.
In this article, we’re going to take a look at Google Translate benefits which you can put the power of Google to good use:
General Use Instructions
The website, Apps :-IOS from the Apple App Store.
Android, from the Google Play Store.
In addition to Online translation, which supports a wide variety of languages, you can also download various languages so that you can use Google Translate’s offline translation facility.
Benefits of Google Translate For Travelers
Apart from the obvious text translation features available, Google offers instant camera translation in 94 languages. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technology is built into camera translation, which results in a much more accurate translation that has “natural” word flow.
Camera translation is particularly useful for tourists visiting a country where more than one language is in use, such as South America where Spanish & Portuguese are used interchangeably on signage throughout the country. To use the tool, users simply need to take a picture using their camera & select “Detect Language” on the app. The result – a translated version of the sign in the language of your choice (list of supported languages). Additionally, this feature works well for translating foreign language menus in restaurants & helps travelers understand adverts displayed in shops. Interestingly, if you’ve downloaded necessary dictionaries to your device, this tool even works while you’re offline.
Benefit of Google Translate For Educators & Bloggers
The world’s students are no longer confined by international borders; the Internet allows educators, both professional & self-styled, to teach remotely. Educators & bloggers can reach a much wider audience if they translate their courses, content & downloadable instructions into a variety of languages. Sure, if these instructions are on a webpage, the instructions can be translated in the browser by the user, but that’s not so easily achieved if they take the form of images with text overlays, downloadable PDFs or audio/video files that require transcription.
In order to make students’ lives easier & to create additional, attractive content for education, this tool can easily turn your courses & tutorials into multi-language educational pieces.
For Freelancers & Remote Workers
Let’s imagine that as a freelancer you land a technical job from a foreigner & that you need to be updated via Zoom or other video conferencing tool – Google Translate can come to your aid instantly, via their “Conversation Translation Tool”. Both parties can use this feature on a separate device to record & translate their conversation in real time, giving instant understanding. This feature is available on various devices.
The tool also allows users to save translated “phrases” to a “phrasebook”, which can be helpful for technically-specific instructions.
For Business
Android users can use Google Translate to translate messages in WhatsApp & on Facebook Messenger. This gives business owners a whole new way to communicate with their clients across international boundaries.
These use cases only brush the surface of Google Translate’s capabilities, it can also translate on 3rd party apps & translate text from photos. However, this should whet your appetite to investigate its powerful features.
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