Google has released a new version of Google Goggles with an exciting new feature: translation.

Google的手機拍照圖片搜索服務(wù)Google Goggles最近新增了翻譯功能。

According to the company's blog, the new feature will be able to read five different, Latin-based languages and translate to many more, all using a smartphone's camera.

新版Google Goggles現(xiàn)在可以識別5種不同的拉丁語言,并能翻譯成更多語言,一切都通過智能手機的攝像頭完成。

The new version of Google Goggles will help translate text from English, French, Italian, German and Spanish into many more languages, and will be able to read many more, including non-Latin-based langauges such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic, in the future.

你可以通過它把英語、法語、意大利語、德語和西班牙語翻譯成更多語言,并且未來還將可以翻譯成中文、印地語和阿拉伯語等非拉丁語系語言。

Using Google Goggles for this feature is a simple process, as described on Google's blog:
* Point your phone at a word or phrase. Use the region of interest button to draw a box around specific words
* Press the shutter button
* If Goggles recognizes the text, it will give you the option to translate
* Press the translate button to select the source and destination languages.

Google Goggles的使用過程非常簡單:
把手機對準(zhǔn)一個單詞或短語。用所在區(qū)域按鈕畫出一個方框圈住所查內(nèi)容。
按快門鍵。
如果Goggles能夠識別文本的話,它就會提供翻譯選項。
點擊翻譯按鈕選擇源語言和目標(biāo)語言。

Google has announced several advancements involving translation over recent months, including automated captioning for YouTube videos, auto-translation for websites in Chrome and even software it is developing to provide real-time voice translation over mobile phones.

Google最近幾個月在翻譯方面動作頻頻,其中包括自動翻譯Youtube標(biāo)題,Chrome網(wǎng)站自動翻譯,以及手機語音翻譯搜索。

Google Goggles version 1.1 is currently only available for devices running Android 1.6 and higher and is available from the Android Marketplace.

Google Goggles 1.1目前僅支持Android 1.6及更高版本手機,可以在Android應(yīng)用商店下載。


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