IT and Society: Google Translate app for mobile adds Conversation Mode

Google Corp. has updated its Translate for Android’s Conversation Mode. The company says that the new technology will make it far easier to talk to foreigners when a user doesn’t know their language.

The first preliminary version of Google Translate Conversation appeared in January and it let users translate chats between English and Spanish. The company has now expanded the application’s previously limited speech-to-speech repertoire with support of total 14 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Polish.

Google is warning that while the new tool is operating in experimental mode, there may be a possibility of inaccurate translations.