Google Translate enables users to instantly translate text and web pages into their native language. Not unlike other services included within its stable of innovative products, Google Translate introduces a convenient and easy-to-use resource that speaks to the pioneering impact of Google on our use of the internet. ?Serving over 98% of internet users today, Google Translate is available in 51 languages.
Aside from cosmetic changes, which have resulted in a cleaner appearance than we last remember, Google has implemented new features that are designed to make use of this service even more responsive and intuitive.
Those features include:
- Translate Instantly: Doing away with the old ?Translate? button, Google Translate will not instantly translate your text, showing updating the translates right as you type.
- Read and write any language: When translating certain languages, it?s difficult to glean the phonetic subtleties that accompany its pronunciation, as the characters ? Chinese, for example ? can?t be read. By clicking ?Show romanization,?? Google Translate will churn out the translated text in phonetically English form.
- Translations for Arabic, Persian, and Hindi: Should a user want to translate from one of these three languages, yet find they?re unable to type to script on the keyboard, this new feature grants users the ability to type words as they sound and convert them into the original script format.
- Text-to-Speech: After performing a translation into English, one now has an opportunity to listen to those translations spoken.
As internet use spreads, bringing disparate cultures closer together, tools of this type will prove invaluable. Once again, Google has developed a service that expands upon our use of the internet, augmenting it for the benefit of the greater community.
Visit Google Translate here.