![]() Allows translation sharing between apps.Features a phrasebook as well as pronunciation guides.Enables multi-person translated conversations.Supports text translations in 64 languages and speech translation in 21 languages.Free language translation app for iPhone and Android.Perfect for when you’re in a meeting with global attendees. Its main difference is that Microsoft Translator can identify multiple languages in the same conversation simultaneously. Its features mirror the same as Google Translate it supports over 60 languages and uses camera and voice translation to translate speech, text and images. Microsoft’s translation tool is its answer to Google Translate. Now available offline for translation in 59 languages.Capable of doing camera translations in 38 languages and photo/image translations in 50 languages. ![]() Supports text translations in 103 languages and speech translation (or conversation translations) in 32 languages.Free language translation app for Android and iPhone.The apps machine engine translates entire sentences or phrases rather than individual words. Unlike the first two apps, Google Translate is completely free and sets a high bar for accurate translations from their machine translation engine. With their Word Lens feature, you can translate text on signs from 37 languages. The app can detect more than 100 languages and provide offline translations to 59 languages. Google Translate is one of the best all-round translation apps on the market. Allows users to connect to a human translator (premium service) for getting more accurate live translations.Provides an offline language dictionary with approximately 10,000 words.Has over 30,000 professionally recorded translation audios.Comes with more than 26,000 phrases in 13 languages.Instant voice translation in 19 languages.Free (limited) translator for Android and iOS with a premium/paid (full) version.Just take an image of a receipt, and the app will translate it in your language and save it as a PDF file. The app translates voices, text, and images in 42 languages, and it can understand formal and informal speech as well.įor business travelers, the receipt translation feature will make filling out expense reports a little easier. It’s a handy app to have to avoid any miscommunications and confusion while abroad. If you’re always traveling to different places, then TripLingo is one of the best translation apps you can get. Camera translation (in the premium version).Supports text translations in over 100 languages and speech translations in 40 languages.Free (limited) translation app for Android and iOS with a premium/paid (full) version.In a YouTube video just released by Microsoft Research, Chris Wendt and Kelly Altom walk developers through the Speech API, showing the application flow, how to establish a web socket, how to package and ship your audio and handle the returned information to and from the server, and in the end demonstrate a sample application. At this highest tier, pricing works out to about $10 per hour for the service. Pricing is free for up to 7,200 transactions per month (about 2 hours of conversation) which may be sufficient for initial development and testing, then rises to $120 per month for up to 36,000 transactions (10 hours), and $1,000 a month for 360,000 transactions (100 hours). The API service is available through the Azure Marketplace. Initially offering eight languages, Microsoft plans to add more languages over time. Starting in late March 2016 Microsoft “popped the hood” off the Skype Translator engine and began to offer the Translator Speech API as a standalone service offering. It will fill a certain niche for communications, but do not be oversold on the concept: professional live translation will still be required when matters of etiquette and linguistic precision are paramount. The disadvantage is that it produces imprecise translations. The advantage of such a tool is that it provides immediacy to communications. While quirky to set up, a bit slow in responsiveness, and still far from perfect, it is an evolutionary step towards the sort of Universal Translator envisioned in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, or the Babel Fish of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Previewed in December 2014 and launched in late 2015, it has already enabled the translation of millions of live conversations between individuals who could not otherwise communicate. Many folks have heard of the release of Microsoft’s Skype Translator feature. File it under the category “ The shape of things to come.” Only, it’s here already.
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