narrator: we've all been there. you have something in your phonethat you need to translate. maybe it's a textfrom your coworkers, a youtube comment, or a post from a friend,
Android google, and you just need to knowwhat it says. but it's actually a lot of stepsto translate it. you copy it, switch apps,paste, translate, reply, switch back, and hit send.
you do that with every message over and over and over. so we had an idea. what if,instead of switching apps, translate was accessiblefrom inside any app, so you could translate any textright there? it's something we're callingtap to translate, a featurein the new google translate app. here's how it works.
say you're chatting in whatsapp. maybe your roommatesall speak hindi, but you don't, and you're wonderingwhat this is. just copy the textlike you always do, and the translation appearsright up here. you can even hear how to say it. [phone speaks hindi] maybe you want to impress themby replying in hindi, so you type, "let's party!"
you drop it in and hit send. there, you did it allwithout switching apps. and of courseit works in any app anytime you copy textyou might want to translate. it works offline too,
so if you don't havea connection at the moment, you can still translate stuff. tap to translate: get it withthe new google translate app for your android phone.
