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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."

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  1. Re:Siri and translation by monkeyhybrid · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are correct. I'm sure Siri will gain more functionality in the future but as it stands now, Siri should be compared to Voice Search and other third party voice command apps.

    Google Translate does translate.

    Siri (on iPhone) and Voice Search (on Android) handle voice commands and interaction.

  2. Except it's not by hellfire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:Siri and translation by Terrasque · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can use it for voice dictation... Just about every text input field, now has a microphone that simply lets you say what you were going to type... and the voice recognition is VERY good.

    And that have been on Android since v1.6, actually.

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