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NYT: Google plans to launch real-time mobile voice translation ‘soon’

The New York Times reports today that Google is preparing an update to its mobile Translate app that will include real-time detection and translation of spoken foreign languages. The online service recently got an upgrade to support a total of 90 languages.

The app will also reportedly gain the ability to use the camera to translate foreign signs in the real world. An exact timeline for when the update will roll out wasn’t given, but the Times says that most Android devices currently running the application will be able to use the new version as well.

Whether the upgrade will be able to translate all 90 languages supported by Translate also hasn’t been revealed, but it seems more likely that it will only support a handful when it launches. A similar feature was introduced to Microsoft’s Skype last year.

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