Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation

Barence writes "PC Pro has a review of a new augmented reality iPhone app that translates from Spanish to English on the fly. 'Point the camera at a decent-sized chunk of Spanish text and within a couple of seconds you'll get a rough and ready translation,' said the reviewer. 'And most magnificently of all, the translation is overlaid, at the correct size, on the original object.' The team behind the project has produced a video of Word Lens in action."

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Re:Not going to lie

[icebike]

Here, try this: http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=translation

There are many to choose from. None have the cutsy, but useless superimposition upon the original, but digging around in there will find page after page of ocr and translation apps.

Lets be perfectly frank. This is an app you will use three times then forget you even have it. It is simply not useful. By the time you run around shooting pictures of signs and finally find one that says "El baño" you will have already peed your pants in Mexico.

Far more useful is Google Translate, which uses voice recognition allowing you to speak your sentence, and will then speak it back in the language of choice. (You can use text input and copy and paste from dozens of free scanner apps as well).