Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri

judgecorp writes "Google Translate for Android, the mobile version of Google's machine translation software, now translates speech back and forth between 14 languages, the company claims. Earlier this year the company added Conversation Mode, which lets users to translate chats between English and Spanish. Now Google has made the tool available from Android 2.2 handsets and later in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The arrival of Siri on the iPhone could spark serious competition in translation systems on phones."

Comments

Siri and translation

[Lord Satri]

Siri doesn't do translations, it's more of an advanced voice recognition tool. Am I wrong? This would mean that at the moment, Apple's Siri and Google Translation would have two different strengths; Siri: usable natural language voice recognition (at least that's how they sell it) and Google Tranlation, well, multi-language translations.

Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri?

[Pieroxy]

Why the catchy headline "To Battle Siri"? Why wouldn't it be just for "Improving Android Translator"?

Siri doesTranslation?

[Grizzley9]

Does Siri even do translation? Every time I've asked it to translate an English word into Spanish it says it doesn't know what I mean. This is not "battling" Siri at all. Catchy key-word title to get more clicks is what I see.

Your mother is called.

[Jawnn]

She said to tell you to stop being so serious about trivial shit like what one smart phone does and another can't. Oh, she also said to get a life and move out of her basement.

Except it's not

[hellfire]

Except Siri doesn't do translation, it does voice command recognition. This is a fail by the editors, picking a submission that deliberately creates an "Apple vs Google" headline to stir up page loads. It's like comparing Google Reader to Apple Mail, it's nonsensical.