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Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. [1] Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then translated and displayed the words in another language on the device's display.
Quest Visual's first product, Word Lens 1.0, was released on December 16, 2010, [5] and was available in 2015 as Word Lens 2.2.3 for Apple's iPhone, iPod, and iPad through iTunes, [9] as well as for a selection of Android smartphones through Google Play. [10]
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
The demo showed how Google’s Translate can automatically listen to speech and translate it in real-time, displaying the translated text for the wearer to see and read with ease.
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]
Lens can also use images to identify text and can find results from Google Search or translate the text with Google Translate in augmented reality. [9] Lens is also integrated with the Google Photos and Google Assistant apps. [5] The service originally launched as Google Goggles, a previous app that functioned similarly but with less capability.
Word Lens feature was expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the Google Translate app in 2015, [32] and then to both simplified and traditional Chinese in 2016. [33] Prior to Word Lens, Good was a video game developer and co-founded Secret Level, Inc., which was acquired by Sega Inc. in 2006 and became Sega Studios San Francisco.
Google Translate previously first translated the source language into English and then translated the English into the target language rather than translating directly from one language to another. [11] A July 2019 study in Annals of Internal Medicine found that "Google Translate is a viable, accurate tool for translating non–English-language ...