Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-your-phone-do-the-talking dept.

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."

1 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. You mean... by tripleevenfall · · Score: 0, Troll

    Soon Apple will be patent trolling that Google Translate is ripping off Siri