The software will give “the context you need to correctly translate and employ the relevant turns of phrase, local idioms, or acceptable terms based on your goal,” according to Google. If everything goes as planned, this should help you communicate more clearly in other languages. Starting this month, enhanced contextual translations will be provided for languages such as English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish, with more likely to come.
Meanwhile, the business just redesigned Translate for Android. It will be available shortly on the iOS app. The updated app includes extra motions that should make it easier to use, such as faster access to language choices and the ability to swipe to bring up recent translations. Google claims that translations are now more readable, and that an additional 33 languages, including Basque, Hawaiian, Hmong, Kurdish, Sundanese, Yiddish, and Zulu, are now accessible for on-device translation.
