Features
Mobile translation may include a number of useful features, auxiliary to text translation which forms the basis of the service. While the user can input text using the device keyboard, they can also use pre-existing text in the form of email or SMS messages received on the user's device (email/SMS translation). It is also possible to send a translated message, optionally containing the source text as well as the translation.
Some mobile translation applications also offer additional services that further facilitate the translated communication process, such as:
- speech generation (speech synthesis), where the (translated) text may be transformed into human speech (by a computer that renders the voice of a native speaker of the target language);
- speech recognition, where the user may talk to the device which will record the speech and send it to the translation server to convert into text before translating it;
- image translation, where the user can take a picture (using the device camera) of some printed text (a road sign, a restaurant menu, a page of a book etc.), have the application send it to the translation server which will apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, extract the text, return it to the user for editing (if necessary) and then translate it into the chosen language.
- voice interpreting, where the user can select the required language combination and then get connected automatically to a live interpreter.
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