The new feature will allow you to record spoken words in one language and turn them into translated text on your smartphone, all in real-time and without processing delays.
The rollout of the new feature starts today and will be available to all Android device users by the end of the week. The languages that will initially be included will be English, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Spanish and Thai.
This means that you will be able to hear any of these languages spoken aloud and translate it into any of the other available languages and this will be done in real time, at speeches, lectures and other events and also from pre-recorded audios.
This means you can theoretically hold your smartphone up to your computer's speaker, play a recording in a language other than your own, and translate it to text, without having to type in words manually.
Google said in January that it would not support the option to upload audio files initially, but it would be able to listen to a live audio source, so it would be possible to use your computer as the audio signal to get a transcript of what is being spoken on another. language.
Prior to this new feature, you could use Google Translate's voice option to translate a spoken word, phrase or sentence from one language to another, including text and verb form. But a Google spokesperson says that part of the app was "not suitable for listening to a discussion to translate a conference, classroom lecture or a video of a lecture".
For starters, this feature will require an internet connection, as Google's software needs to communicate with its TPU (Tensor Processing Units), a custom type of AI-focused processing chip for use on cloud servers, to perform transcription at the same time. alive.
In fact, a Google spokesperson says the feature works by combining the existing Live Transcribe feature built into the Recorder app on Pixel phones, which normally works offline, with the power of their cloud TPUs, thus creating the translated transcript in real-time. as long as you have internet connection speed up the transcription.
However, Google made it clear that the new function is not just for the Pixel, but at the beginning for Android devices and completed saying that it plans to take the new feature to iOS in the future.
If the new feature does not appear for you at this time, it is likely that after the next Google Translate update you will have access to the new feature. Google also says that you'll be able to pause or resume the transcript by tapping the microphone icon, as well as change the text size and customize the dark themes options in the Translation Settings menu.
