BARCELONA Google launches translation service menu for easy ordering foreign tourists. In everyday life, often occurs a tourist who only speak English to order the wrong food when visiting a restaurant in Germany. For example, it could have forced tourists to face the heart of a bowl of hot soup that tastes sour beef. To overcome this, Google provides the solution. In the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010, Google’s new exhibit translator technology. That translates menus foreign foods instantly through an application on smart phones. Reported by the Telegraph, Friday (19/2/2010) early prototype created by Google is currently only able to translate German into English. Google plans to expand this service in order to support 52 languages. “Imagine you are a traveler who enters a restaurant, where there is only menus that do not understand. You must be confused ordering food,” said Google Product Marketing Manager, Andrew Gomez.
This translation service menu is a further development of the feature ‘Goggles’ Google. This feature allows users to search the web without having to type in the word, but only to show the phone to an object. This software uses optical character recognition technology to scan the written word and turn it into computer text which is then translated into the Google Translate service. “This service is still early stages. We want to introduce the first demo. We want to show how great your phone when connected with this technology,” said Gomez.
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