Universal Translator on Android by Google

If you are a Star Trek serieus fan, you should know about the universal translator.  It is a device that goes with officers' communicator and as they speak, the listener will hear spoken words in his or her own language.

Well, upto now you would have though that we are years (and maybe centuries) away from such technology.

Not true.

It seems now, smart devices runing on android can have an application called "Translate app" that will turn them into a universal translator.  at least that is the goal.  You type or say the initial phrase in whatever language you choose and it will spell out and give the option to allow it to say the phrase itself.

Although the thechnology is at its begining, it will definitly come in handy for alot of travelers and business people.

Google's official blog says:

When we launched the first version of Google Translate for Android in January 2010, we were excited about the year ahead. For the first time, we were bringing the capabilities supported on Google Translate—like machine translation, romanization of non-Roman scripts and spoken translations—to the Android platform. We also offered voice input to let you speak the word or phrase you wanted to translate instead of typing it in, and SMS translation so you could translate SMS messages sent to you in foreign languages.

Today, we’re refreshing Translate for Android with several updates to make the app easier to interact with. Among other improvements, we’ve created better dropdown boxes to help select the languages you want to translate from and into, an improved input box, and cleaner icons and layout.