Translate That French Menu With Your Android Phone And Google Goggles
With the translation feature of Goggles, you can point your phone at a word or phrase and draw a box around specific words that you don’t understand. After pressing the shutter button, Goggles will give you the option of translating the text to the available languages. While the feature only includes five languages, Google’s goal is to eventually be able to to read all of the Latin languages and non-Latin languages (such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic) as well.
In addition to translation, the new version of Goggles includes improved barcode recognition, recognition of many more products, artwork and logos, an improved user interface, and the ability to begin visual searches using images in your phone’s photo gallery.
The feature seems like it would be useful for any traveler. But sorry iPhone and BlackBerry users, Google Goggles v1.1 is only available on devices running Android 1.6 and higher.