Google Translate app and how to use it
Google Translate helps break down barriers to communicating with others by offering many ways to translate different languages. For Android and iPhone users, Google Translate is one of the best applications to facilitate communication with others and understand their language while traveling in particular.
Google Translate works with text, voice, and image input, and has many useful features that are available in the web version and in the app, but the app has additional features. Here are 5 of the most useful features in the Google Translate app and how to use them:
1- Translate conversations in real time
One of the most prominent features of the Google Translate app is real-time translation of conversations. You can start speaking and the translated text will appear on your phone screen as you speak. You can play the audio so that the other party can listen to the translated version instead of reading it.
You can try real-time translation in the Google Translate app by following these steps:
1- Open the Google Translate app.
2- Click on the Conversation button that appears in the lower left corner of the screen.
3- Click on the language name shown above the microphone icon in the lower left, then choose your language.
4- Click on the language name shown above the microphone icon in the lower right, then choose the language you want to translate into.
5- To start translating the conversation in real time, click on the microphone button on the side of your language, and start speaking, and the translation will appear directly in the section for the other language.
6-Click the microphone button for the other language when the other person starts speaking, and you will see a translation of what he said in your language part.
2- Translate the words in the images using the Google Translate app
Google Translate can identify the text appearing in the images and translate it into the language you want. This feature is especially useful when traveling to help, for example, with reading menus in restaurants, or reading signage in museums or other places you visit during your travels.
You can take a photo directly from the Google Translate app to translate the text in it, or choose a photo from your gallery and add it to the Google Translate app to translate the text in it.
Here's how to translate the words in the images using the Google Translate app.
1- Open the Google Translate app on your phone.
2- Click the Camera button that appears in the lower left corner of the screen.
3- Click on the language name shown in the upper left corner of your phone screen to choose the language of the text shown in the image.
4- Click on the language name shown in the upper right corner of the screen to choose the language you want to translate into.
5- Click the Instant button in the lower left corner of the screen to translate the text in the image instantly.
6- Point the phone's camera at the text and the translation will appear immediately.
7- Click on the Import button that appears in the lower left corner of the screen to translate text into an image saved on your phone.
3- Offline translation
If you are traveling, you may not be able to be online all the time. To avoid interruptions in using Google Translate while you're offline, download some of the languages you might need on your travels into Google Translate earlier to use when you're offline. Here's how to do it:
1- Open the Google Translate app.
2- Click on the language name that appears on the lower left side of the screen.
3- You will see a list of languages that you would like to translate offline.
4- Click the download button that appears as a downward-facing arrow next to the language you want to download.
5- Click the Download button.
Then you will be able to translate texts written in the languages you have downloaded in the app without an internet connection.
4- Translate handwritten text in the Google Translate app
If you own a phone with a pen, such as the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, you can translate handwritten text using the pen, and everyone can also use this feature by writing with their finger.
Here's how to translate handwritten text in the Google Translate app:
1- Open the Google Translate app.
2- Click on the space designated for entering text.
3- Click on the handwriting icon shown in the upper right corner of the screen.
4- A window will appear at the bottom of the screen, write text with your finger or using your phone's stylus.
5- A translation of the text you wrote in your handwriting will appear in the language you chose.
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