That's pretty impressive. Does it actual work like that. I'm quite ignorant to these things . Have never had a smart phone or tablet.

I'm not sure, was that even real?

Um, that is game changing if it is real and actually performs that well, which is why I don't buy it. I suppose it is just a combination of OCR and the Google translate engine with some fancy font and vector graphic effects, but in my experience those things are far from perfect on their own let alone in combination.

Still, damn. I would not be surprised at all if it sort of worked okay some of the time, which means in ten years it will work pretty damn well most all of the time. That will be tremendously useful. Well, not for me, I'm an American. It's everybody else's job to adjust their language for my convenience.

I've never seen Google Translate work like that on my phone. I used it to help me play the Korean version of Black Desert (prior to the English patch being out, and even occasionally after it came out as lots of stuff doesn't translate well), I start the App, point the camera to the screen and then take a picture of the region of screen I need translated. Then it scans that region for Korean text. I then have to manually highlight the text I want translated. It then gives the usual Google Translate translation, which is word by word translation, but not a proper translation. I've never seen a video feature and the photo one isn't as quick as seen here. If they've managed to make the video and photo feature work automatically and much faster than I've seen so far (though perhaps Spanish is easier to translate than Korean as it uses the same letters) then I'm super impressed. The App has the ability to take text typed as one would expect, and can also supposedly translate speech, I haven't really tried it, perhaps I can load up an Anime and see if it works...

Wow seriously?... i think my iq drops about 10 points if i become separated from mine...

Yes i know how pathetic that is.

I just tried it on my phone, and yes it seemed to work like in the video. There's a limited number of languages supported for the camera function, the text needs to be large and in a simple font, and some words seem to change often, like the app isn't sure of the translation.

Overall still pretty damn amazing!

This tech came from an app called WordLens that Google bought a year or two ago. I successfully used it in a few different European countries.

The bigger, less-stylized, more-contrasting the text, the better it works. Try it out, it feels like the future!

That must be why WordLens disappeared from my phone. I reset my phone the other day and WordLens was the only app that didn't automatically reinstall.

No fucking way.

Is this next year's April Fool's gag released early or some shit?

Amazing.

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Works with sunglasses too - *related=http://videosift.com/video/They-Live-Nada-Learns-the-Truth

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Okay... but what's the point when I can just stick a babel fish in my ear?