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Travelling in a foreign country and without an Internet connection? The new version of Google Translate for Android lets you to download 50 language to be used offline, no matter where you are. Don't worry, you don’t need to download all of them; only download the language pack corresponding to the country you are travelling to, or the languages you most commonly have to translate to/from.
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Language is such a cultural totem that its translation doesn’t cover all the corners. When we talk of machine translation, the name without surprises that comes to mind is of Google Translate. Perhaps, most of us don’t use the service so much because our comfort zone is English. But let’s realize that Google Translate can be put to many other interesting uses other than turning a love to an amour.
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Google has introduced a new feature for Google Translate called Phrasebook. As the name suggests, Phrasebook can be used to save commonly used phrases. The service now allows you to save a set of translations, i.e., the commonly used catchphrases in a given language, for quick translations, reference, and reuse.
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I'm a self-confessed monolingual individual, and as someone who appreciates other cultures and people, I'm a bit ashamed to say it. Knowing multiple languages seems to be the thing these days, and I'm trying to keep up. In the meantime, I rely on Google Translate for my iPhone. With features like voice recognition and favorited phrases, the app has taken a gigantic leap from the browser-based version we all know and love.
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Technology has made the world a smaller place. People from every part of this planet use many of the same tools, visit some of the same websites, and mix in various chat rooms online. The internet is a melting pot and a beacon of globalization. And yet it isn't. The biggest obstacles to global understanding and unity, despite the technological ability for global exchange and communication, are culture and language.
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The Google Translate app for Android now has the ability to translate text found in the real world instead of only text entered in by the user. This can be accomplished by taking a photo of the take you want translated and then highlighting the text you want translated with a swipe of your finger.
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very so often, an application comes along that really makes you think how awesome technology can be. ABBYY Textgrabber and Translator for iOS is one of those apps. We have 25 copies of ABBYY Textgrabber and Translator up for grabs this week. Read on to find out more about the app and how you can win a free copy.
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Google has just released an update to their extensive Google Translate app, making it finally native to the iPad. If you’ve used the iPhone version of the app, you’re not going to be blown away by the changes, but the iPad is a great place to have a free translation app, especially one that can translate to and from 63 different languages.
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Translations used to be hard. Whenever someone talked to you in another language when, say, you traveled to another country, you were pretty much out of luck if you didn’t spend time learning it prior to going or if you didn’t have a translator on hand. Translation books and even phone applications can only carry [...]
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With certain languages Google Translate is appallingly bad. Ever tried to translate from Arabic into English? You’ll be hard pressed to ever understand what the English translation says let alone the Arabic original. I can imagine that the case is the same for quite a few other languages. That said, there are some languages, such [...]
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In a world that seems to be getting smaller every day, with bloggers and friends making connections all across the world – there are times when language becomes a limiting factor.  I once had a reader from France write in with words of appreciation for a blog article I’d written at a UFO website – [...]
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Whilst it is true that the Internet is a huge repository of information, there is still the (small) matter of the language barrier for most people to overcome. Luckily, there is the Google Translate platform, which many developers use as a basis to provide real-time automated text translation tools. This post looks at various tools (desktop, [...]
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Google Desktop is a great tool for social networking. The Twitter and Facebook gadgets allow you to keep up to date with your friends without even having to launch a full web browser. Other Google Desktop gadgets, like custom clocks and computer performance meters, just flat-out look cool. But Google Desktop isn’t just a novelty. [...]
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Once upon a time, online translation services were a seldom seen wonder. Now, the internet is bulking with them. Suddenly you need to make a choice; whether to go with Babel Fish, WordLingo, Google Translate, or yet another new service. Great, if not for the fact that choice always creates the possibility of error. And [...]
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My native language is Dutch. I do write and read mostly in English for my work (you’re looking at it), hobby (my personal blog and news addiction) and studies. Of course, I like to improve my English proficiency all the time. Now you could take up lessons to improve your language skills but I think [...]
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