Google Translate: Picture To OCR To Speech
Google Translate announced they added in integration with Google Goggles, to help with your translation needs. So when you are in a restaurant and the menu looks foreign to you, you can pull out your Google Translate app and have it search for the translation. You take a picture of the words, highlight the words […]
Google Translate announced they added in integration with Google Goggles, to help with your translation needs.
So when you are in a restaurant and the menu looks foreign to you, you can pull out your Google Translate app and have it search for the translation.
You take a picture of the words, highlight the words by brushing over the words with your finger and it translates it on the screen. It can even speak it back to you.
Here are pictures of how it works step by step:
The languages currently support optical character recognition for Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
This is now supported on the Android version of Google Translate.
Related stories
New on Search Engine Land
About the author
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.