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Google’s real-time voice translation service for mobile devices is on the way

Jan12
by on January 12, 2015 at 4:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, languages, Translation

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Following the launch of Microsoft’s Skype Translator service, Google will soon update its mobile translation app to recognize speech in a range of languages and turn into text, reports The New York Times. Google’s will announce the update to its Android app soon. The new feature should make it easier for language learners, travelers and businesses communicate more easily when conversing with foreign language speakers. The New York Times also says that Google will launch a service to automatically translate foreign text into your native language on your smartphone, simply by pointing your device’s camera at, say, a street sign.…

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Google’s real-time voice translation service for mobile devices is on the way

Jan12
by on January 12, 2015 at 4:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, languages, Translation

Translate
Following the launch of Microsoft’s Skype Translator service, Google will soon update its mobile translation app to recognize speech in a range of languages and turn into text, reports The New York Times. Google’s will announce the update to its Android app soon. The new feature should make it easier for language learners, travelers and businesses communicate more easily when conversing with foreign language speakers. The New York Times also says that Google will launch a service to automatically translate foreign text into your native language on your smartphone, simply by pointing your device’s camera at, say, a street sign.…

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Imagine there’s no Google

Jan11
by on January 11, 2015 at 6:40 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Google, Insider

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I’ve recently been reading Nicholas Carlson’s book Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo. While it’s a really interesting read about the past, present and future of the troubled internet giant, what struck me was how the choices of Yahoo’s management could have affected the fortunes of another giant – Google. Yahoo had a chance to buy Google’s core technology (then called BackRub) in 1997, at a bargain price, so Larry Page could pursue his academic career – but they let it pass by. Imagine if Yahoo had bought Google, though. Page Rank would have been incorporated into Yahoo Search and…

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Jan11
by on January 11, 2015 at 5:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, Insider

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Maybe you visit this site once a week and browse through our channels. Or maybe you follow us via RSS, or maybe you receive our weekly or daily newsletter? Maybe you are very aware of the many different ways to get to the news we publish, or maybe you missed a few options. Here are the many ways to follow our reporting in a useful list: Via our site | TheNextWeb.com / tnw.co / tnw.to It doesn’t matter whether you have a desktop PC, a tablet or a smart phone; our website is optimized to look good and handle well on all platforms. Give…

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