Google Translate For Android Literally Speaks More Languages, Through Conversation Mode

By Danny Sullivan

Published: October 13, 2011 at 2:29 pm

In January, Google Translate for Android gained “Conversation Mode,” a way to speak into your phone and have it speak back in a different language. Today, Google’s expanded the number of languages supported.

Originally, the tool only supported English-to-Spanish translation (or vice versa). Now, Google says 14 languages in all are covered: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

The announcement comes a day before the iPhone 4S will be arriving to the public, with its vaunted Siri spoken assistant. Don’t confuse the two.

Google Translate is designed to translate from one language to another, which is pretty cool. The Siri assistant is designed to help you more easily search for things and complete tasks by speaking, which is also cool, but a different type of cool.

Google’s posted a video explaining more about how the translation works:

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fsvYd2RBY[/youtube]

To use the feature, search for “Google Translate” in the Android Market on your particular phone. It can also be found here.

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Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.