Google has rolled out an update to its popular Translate app, adding support for 20 new languages (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian, as well as limited support for Hindi and Thai) to its visual translation tool, which can decipher text in photos and video.
Photo or video translation is not available for Chinese, Japanese or Korean, though text-to-text translation and voice-to-voice translation are all supported for these languages.
Writing software code to recognise Chinese characters is notoriously difficult.
One app which specialises in doing just that is Waygo, which can translate photo-based or other text into Japanese, Chinese and Korean into English.
Unfortunately, unlike Google Translate, Waygo charges a premium for its service and does not offer video translation - only 10 translation per day are free....
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