News · 17 Apr 2012 · MTW Editorial Team
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Translator application has just received a MAJOR update today with the introduction of the following new features:
– Point, Scan and Translate: This is a beefed up augmented reality version of the Bing vision translate feature already found in Windows Phone 7.5. Users can now use the device’s camera to translate text in real-time on the go. Works fairly good from what I have seen so far.
– Offline Translation: Users can download languages packs to use the app in offline mode.
– Type and Translate: Instant translation using keyboard input
– Speak and translate: Speak in any of the supported languages and the device will then speak back what you just said in the desired language.
There are also several other UI changes and tweaks (the ability to pin the aforementioned methods of translation directly on the start screen for speedy access). All in all this is a really amazing update so make sure to get it right now from here and check out the announcement video after the break:
There’s no doubt that most of these features will probably native to Windows Phone 8 Apollo.
source: Microsoft
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