If you selected to translate the text by word as you select them, the text appears in the original source language. Navigate to the word whose translation you want to see and hear, and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Listen to translation." Double-tap the screen to hear the translated word.
Use Microsoft Lens and Immersive Reader with TalkBack, the built-in Android screen reader, to increase the readability of content, decode complex texts, and help you focus on the text of your documents. You'll also learn how to highlight syllables and parts of speech, use a picture dictionary, and translate content.
If you selected to translate the text only by word, the text appears in the original source language. Navigate to the word whose translation you want to see and hear, and double-tap the screen. You hear: "Listen to translation." Double-tap the screen to hear the translated word.
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. The words were displayed in the original context on the original background, and the translation was performed in real-time without a connection to the internet. For example, using the viewfinder of a camera to show a shop sign on a smartphone's display would result in a real-time image of the shop sign being displayed, but the words shown on the sign would be the translated words instead of the original foreign words.
Word Lens is an augmented reality application that recognizes printed words using its optical character recognition capabilities and instantly translates these words into the desired language.[2][3] This application does not require connection to the internet. In its default mode, Word Lens performs real-time translation, but can be paused to display a single frame or to look up alternative translations of each specific word in that frame. It is also possible to use the built-in dictionary to manually type in words that need to be translated.
The Google Goggles application for Android and iPhone has the capability to translate text or identify objects in an image, but it requires users to take a picture with their phones, and an active internet connection. Word Lens does it on the fly, meaning it's interpreting frames in video, almost in real time. A similar app called LookTel, designed to help blind people, scans print on objects such as packages of food and reads them aloud."[30]
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