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It’s a small, yellow, leech-like creature* that feeds on … no, wait, it’s Google’s new real-time language translation app.
Although sadly not an actual Babel fish, the Chocolate Factory’s latest upgrade to its Google Translate app does mean you can “instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language”.
From Wednesday, Android and iOS users will be able to use their smartphone to live translate conversations in a much faster, more “organic” way.
According to Barak Turovsky, product lead on Google Translate: “When talking with someone in an unfamiliar language, conversations can... get... realllllllly... sloowwww. While we’ve had real-time conversation mode on Android since 2013, our new update makes the conversation flow faster and more naturally.”
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