Google Translate
Madison Field
Hello my name is Madison, and today I will be talking about Google Translate. Google Translate is free and you can get it on Google Play or the App Store. You do not need a google account to use it like almost every other google app. Anyway, let’s get right into it!
What is Google Translate?
Google Translate is an app where you can translate any language to another language. It’s quite simple actually. There are 5 ways to translate.
- Press Camera
- Press Conversation
- Press handwriting
- Press voice
Those are 4 ways to translate and later I will talk about those, but for now we will focus on the simpler one.
Entering A Text
Entering a text is extremely simple, just open the app and there you are, the picture on the right shows you the screen that will come up. Then, where it says “Tap to enter text” or “Enter Text.” Then type what you want it to translate. A little lower it should have translated to the language you want it to. But if it did not translate to the right language try pressing the language on the top right. That will make a drop down menu come up. Then you can see all sorts of languages, if you were looking for Zulu you would scroll to the bottom. (in alphabetical order) then it should translate to the correct language!
Using the Camera
The camera button is on the very left! It is very simple, just tap the button. And if you haven’t already allowed the camera, press allow. Also if you have the version I have you may have something else pop up...“New camera features,” press continue and should be taken to the camera feature. Like this picture on the left, just point your phone(or IPad) at the text, and make sure you have changed the languages. This picture on the left shows Russian to English, because that’s the way it has to read it. It can’t be told to read Spanish but have to and read Japanese. And then there are other ways to use the camera. The first one is “Instant” which is the one your on, you know because it is highlighted blue. The next one in the middle on the bottom, is Scan, which is basically a picture you take. Just press the gray circle on the right. It will say “looking for English text,” after about 10 seconds it should find the text. You can also highlight the text if it doesn’t find it. Then it will translate to the language you want it to. To exit this just tap the X at the top left corner. Then the last way to use the camera is using a photo you have already have. A cool sign you saw in Spanish, a text message that’s typed in Italian, etc. just take a picture or take a screenshot and this will help you out! Just make sure the photo is clear and that the font isn’t crazy. Like this font it probably can’t read.
Handwriting, or Finger-Writing?
Handwriting is what it is called or finger-writing, unless you have a stylus. So just tap “Handwriting” and it will take you to a screen that looks like this photo on the right. Remember to change to the correct languages that you want to use. (Green) And then we’re it says hello on the picture, that is where the handwriting comes in. (Try to write as neat as possible) And if you put the wrong thing or just want to press the backspace button, that just is the backspace button… It does what a backspace button usually does...(Yellow) And it will usually do the spaces for you, but if it doesn’t put the space in, just tap the space button. (Red) And last but not least, the exit button! Which is just like every other, the X! (Blue)
Conversation!
Conversation is pretty cool. Just open it, then start talking immediately. It starts recording the second you open it. For example, if you said, “Hello Friends” you would stop the recording, (the red button) then it would repeat back, “Hola Amigos” And that is super simple.This is very Similar to “Voice” and we will get into that soon but let’s stay on topic. Then it will automatically start recording again, you can continue to speak and maybe even learn a bit of that language. Or you can just press the X to exit this.
Lalalala Lovely voice!
Voice is going to be the shortest paragraph… I can feel it… Just tap “Voice” on the right and it will automatically (just like conversation) start recording. So speak as clearly as you can and just stop talking, and then it will again automatically take you back to the home screen. Super simple and on the left it will come up, and show you what you said, and it translated to the language you chose for it to translate it to.
Overall
Overall, I think this app is pretty great and there may be a few things wrong with it but I think it works pretty great. They probably in the future will add even more crazy stuff to it! But I think some bad things are, how the voice mode doesn’t always get your correct voice. And they may need to put something in for, “We will not use your voice” and hopefully those are the only things that are bad. Some good things are, there are many ways to translate, there are very many languages. And the set up is neat and very simple to function.
I do recommend this app to people that have family that don’t speak their language or if they have a person at their school that speaks another language, etc. I think this app is quite useful and I hope everyone that reads this agrees with me.
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