iOS 14 Features New Translate App With Support for 11 Languages and Offline Mode

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that iOS 14 features an all-new Translate app for translating conversations, with support for 11 different languages at launch and an offline mode for private voice and text translation.

Supported languages include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

When you place your iPhone in landscape orientation, a microphone button appears as a quick way to begin translating. The side-by-side user interface makes it easy for two people to have a conversation in different languages.

Here's how Apple explains the feature:

Automatic language detection transcribes the original and translated text on the appropriate sides of the screen, followed by translated audio. Translate uses advanced on-device machine learning and the powerful Apple Neural Engine to enable natural-sounding conversations.

Users can save translations in the Favorites tab, which also displays a recent history.

iOS 14 is available in beta for registered Apple developers today, with a public beta to follow next month. The free software update will be released in the fall for the iPhone 6s and newer.

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[Blackstick]

This is very useful, looks sneaker than Google's effort - if I can ever visit Europe again especially so

 

[cmaier]

As someone who speaks multiple languages I resent this feature

 

[eawmp1]

Hopefully the speech recognition is better than implemented in Siri. Otherwise this may cause multiple international incidents.

 

[abel75]

Still waiting for Siri to recognize the language I’m dictating text in, e.g. when sending a message using Carplay...or for Siri to read out a received message in the same language it was written without messing up pronouncation.

 

[filemakercowboy]

C'mon. The Federation had this in the 1960's

 

[velocityg4]

Hopefully it is more accurate than the Hungarian Phrasebook.

 

[SeattleMoose]

If this works as well as Siri I'll be insulting people around the world in no time....😐

 

[HiRez]

What languages are supported?

 

[spinedoc77]

Cool, the more Google products I can remove from my iphone the better ! Did they happen to mention which 11 languages they are supporting?

 

[stainless]

What languages are supported?

Watch the video. English, Chinese, Spanish, and many more.
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For those that don't know, this is a direct competitor to Microsoft Translator and Google Translate (Which doesn't work in China, unless you have already downloaded the language). If you travel a lot as I do, this is a well-needed feature, ESPECIALLY offline because you do not always have access to Wifi or Cell in China, Spain, Italy, let along many remote areas of Asia. It will be interesting to see if they add, Picture translators, which both aforementioned have and is important when ordering food off a menu (Did I just order Dog!?).

 

[Konigi]

Looking good! I hope it comes to macOS too thanks to Mac Catalyst.

 

[JosephAW]

I wonder who they will license this through to have off-line translation?
I tried to translate a lot of text once and the software was expensive to do it off-line.

 

[guzhogi]

I work in a school district, and this would be good for foreign language classes, English language learners, etc.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Hopefully it is more accurate than the Hungarian Phrasebook.

My nipples tremble with delight!

 

[cmaier]

C'mon. The Federation had this in the 1960's

Not to mention Douglas Adams with his ear-mounted fish.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Not to mention Douglas Adams with his ear-mounted fish.

babelfish.altavista.com was the first translation site I used way back a long time ago.

 

[cmaier]

babelfish.altavista.com was the first translation site I used way back a long time ago.

I remember that. But that means we are old.

 

[JKAussieSkater]

I don't care for another translator… what I really need is a UI overlay that can translate apps without multi-lingual support. For example, many useful apps in Japan are not made available in English—or when they are made in English, have features cut down from the original app.

In addition, some websites use images with burned-in text as buttons, so a UI overlay with text-recognition would be most helpful where meta-data or text doesn't exist.

 

[Pedro Simões]

There is no app translater for Ipad...

 

[cmaier]

There is no app translater for Ipad...

yeah, makes some sense. It's meant to be interactive, where you and the other person are looking at it while out and about.

Would be nice to have on iPad in some situations though.

 

[cjboffoli97]

I've been playing around with this translator app for the last day or so and I have to say it is surprisingly good (at least with French and Spanish). Fast too.

 

[cmaier]

I've been playing around with this translator app for the last day or so and I have to say it is surprisingly good (at least with French and Spanish). Fast too.

I'm finding it to be very good with german so far. (though i've only taste it in german->english. I'll play around with the reverse later).

 

[Pedro Simões]

The translator built into the safari works very well on the Ipad. Microsoft translator blacked out.

 

[Night Spring]

yeah, makes some sense. It's meant to be interactive, where you and the other person are looking at it while out and about.

Would be nice to have on iPad in some situations though.

Why would you assume that immediate translations are only useful when out and about? People talk to each other while indoors too! Very disappointed it's not included for the iPad.