Let's face it, as good as Google Translate is, most of the best features require a data connection, which you probably don't have while travelling. Now an update has given Google Translate the power to save a whole bunch of phrases for offline use. Your pocket translator just got much more useful. Read More >>
Google Translate for Android will now offer downloadable offline language packs. So now when you're staring at a weird sign in a country where you don't speak the language, your phone will actually be able to help you. This isn't an obvious jibe at Samsung's also-offline S Translate app at all. Read More >>
One of the wonderful things about Star Wars was that even though you couldn't understand some characters, you still understood them. But what if you could plug in Chewbacca's growls and R2D2's beepity boops into Google Translate to find out what they're saying? Nate Smith of Awkward Elevator did just that, and it's exactly what you expected. Read More >>
Featured comment by resis:
"Someone needs to do a lens flare count on JJ's stuff - is it really that bad? I love the stuff he does, and yes I know there are lens flares in them, ..." More »
Just like the French Price theme song, Call Me Maybe -- the candy pop song that desperately wanted to be the song of 2012 but got hijacked by Gangnam Style -- has been put through Google Translate over and over until it was translated back to English. Which means the lyrics have been chopped up into an entirely different, more hilarious beast. I like it better. Read More >>
Featured comment by snapper.fishes:
"So I decided to watch the original video for a change. I could barely stood the cheesiness... but dang that ending is totally worth it." More »
Sometimes Google Translate doesn't get it quite right. To illustrate that point in the most outlandish way possible, CDZA took the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme, crunched it through Google Translate for all 26 supported languages, then took it back to English. Read More >>
Google Translate just got Word Lens, basically. The new feature in the latest update of the Google Translate app lets you take a picture in-app, and highlight text you want translated from one language into another. It's pretty cool. Read More >>
It's been out for almost a year on the iPhone, and longer than that as a web app. Now Google Translate has been enlarged for the iPad. The app can translate between 63 languages via text. Will talk to you in 24, and can understand 17 languages if spoken too. If you're traveling in a far-off land and you want to communicate, you can display your translation in full screen mode. You could hold your iPad up and tell the natives that their country is awesome. Or you could use it to hail a taxi. Your choice. [iTunes] Read More >>
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