Google Demos Translating From German to English via Mobile Phone Camera
February 19, 2010 1:56 PM | Google | Comments (0)
Google demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a prototype version of Google Goggles that showcases the potential of integrating Google's machine translation and image recognition technologies. The video above shows Goggles taking a picture of a German menu and instantly translating the text into English. That is amazing! | |
This works by connecting the phone's camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates that text into English with Google Translate. Currently this technology only works for German-to-English translations and it's not yet ready for release. It does show a lot of potential for what the future may hold. Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language. Eventually, Google hopes to build a version of Google Goggles that can translate between all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate!
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