The application has a feature that's not available in the Android app: full-screen mode, so it doesn't make sense to use a such a big font size which is not even configurable. Google says that "the ability to easily enlarge the translated text to full-screen size" makes it "much easier to read the text on the screen, or show the translation to the person you are communicating with. Just tap on the zoom icon to quickly zoom in."
Why would you use the native application instead of visiting translate.google.com? The native application supports voice input for 15 languages, text-to-speech for 23 languages and it's better suited for quickly switching between multiple languages.
{ via Google Mobile Blog }
It's funny to note that the translation in the screenshot is wrong... And the spelling too!
ReplyDeleteFirst part of the sentence should be "Quand une traduction est affichée".
It's an excerpt from a Google help page which uses a strange wording that probably confused Google's machine translation service.
ReplyDeleteThe mobile version of translate.google.com has been flakey on iPhone for some time, so I definitely welcome the new app.
ReplyDeleteThe new Google Translate app is an awesom specimen of futuristic technology, and even more awesome will be an artificial intelligence http://cyborg.blogspot.com/2011/01/aiapp.html to let the various mobile platforms and tablet computers think about and understand the material being translated.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fabulous. Works like a charm. Especially great is the voice recognition.
ReplyDeleteBig help for those who work on this field. It one way also to learn different languages through the use of Google Translate. No need for you to go on research about these.
ReplyDeleteThis application is very useful. Now you can easily translate the foreign language you cannot understand using this application in your mobile. There is no need for us to open your computer for it.
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