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Google Translate for Android adds offline support for 50 languages

Google has announced today that it has added offline language support to its Google Translate app for Android.

The search giant says the new support is good for fifty languages ranging "from French and Spanish to Chinese and Arabic."



As a caveat, the company says the offline offerings are "less comprehensive" than if you were connected to the Internet but it should do fine if you need the occasional word.

To be able to use the service offline, you will need to download language packs from within the installed app.

The Google Translate app is free in the Google Play store.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 28 Mar 2013 10:07

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• 3 comments

• xyqo

  Its like the universal translator in Star Trek :D
  

  XXYYQQOO!!! Yeah WELCOME TO JAMROCK
  
  

  28.3.2013 10:18 #1

• aw2600

  Originally posted by xyqo: Its like the universal translator in Star Trek :D ... or the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Most tablet computers even look like "The Guide" itself.
  

  28.3.2013 10:36 #2

• plazma247

  Or the telepathic field produced by the translation circuit in the Tardis Data Core.
  
  Actually i think i remember Amit Singhal saying in october of last year it was the Star Trek communicator that was the inspiration for it in some article some place.

  28.3.2013 17:11 #3