07 May 2010 | Author: J. Morton News Editor
With its forays of applications becoming ever more daring and futuristic, Google has taken another bold leap into the world of 'augmented reality' - a rising phenomenon previously reported by bigmouthmedia news.
This time, the Mountain View, California-based juggernaut - which commands a healthy influence on mobile devices thanks to its Android software - has upgraded its Goggles application, a search-by-photo service for smartphones, to include a translator.
According to an official Google Mobile blog posting, using the service will be simple. Users can direct the phone at a particular set of words that interest them and, using the 'region of interest' button, select the text of their choosing. Next, users will press the shutter button, and Google Goggles will then give the option to translate the text into their native language.
The posting said the service has been in the works for that past few months, though has only been made available this week.
"The first Goggles translation prototype was unveiled earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and could only recognize German text," software engineers Alessandro Bissacco and Avi Flamholz wrote in the blog posting
"Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages."
The pair of developers said that the Google Goggles team is working on extending the service to include more Latin-based languages in the near future, with the ultimate goal of incorporating non-Latin languages, such as Hindi, Chinese and Arabic.
This new release of the Goggles software also includes several, more general upgrades as well.
"In addition to translation, Goggles v1.1 features improved barcode recognition, a larger corpus of artwork, recognition of many more products and logos, an improved user interface, and the ability to initiate visual searches using images in your phone's photo gallery," the posting said.
Google 'Goggles' take on new role as pictorial translators
With its forays of applications becoming ever more daring and futuristic, Google has taken another bold leap into the world of 'augmented reality' - a rising phenomenon previously reported by bigmouthmedia news.This time, the Mountain View, California-based juggernaut - which commands a healthy influence on mobile devices thanks to its Android software - has upgraded its Goggles application, a search-by-photo service for smartphones, to include a translator.
According to an official Google Mobile blog posting, using the service will be simple. Users can direct the phone at a particular set of words that interest them and, using the 'region of interest' button, select the text of their choosing. Next, users will press the shutter button, and Google Goggles will then give the option to translate the text into their native language.
The posting said the service has been in the works for that past few months, though has only been made available this week.
"The first Goggles translation prototype was unveiled earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and could only recognize German text," software engineers Alessandro Bissacco and Avi Flamholz wrote in the blog posting
"Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages."
The pair of developers said that the Google Goggles team is working on extending the service to include more Latin-based languages in the near future, with the ultimate goal of incorporating non-Latin languages, such as Hindi, Chinese and Arabic.
This new release of the Goggles software also includes several, more general upgrades as well.
"In addition to translation, Goggles v1.1 features improved barcode recognition, a larger corpus of artwork, recognition of many more products and logos, an improved user interface, and the ability to initiate visual searches using images in your phone's photo gallery," the posting said.
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