Google Translate for Android updated in wake of Japan crisis

By on Mar 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Software March 18, 2011

In the wake of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, Google has issued an experimental version of its Translate application for Android. “Download this experimental version of Google Translate for Android to translate text automatically between Japanese and over 50 other languages,” writes Google. “You can also use Conversation Mode for speech-to-speech translation between English, Spanish and Japanese.” The app, which is posted on Google’s “Japan Crisis Response” page, will run on Android version 2.0 or higher and is available here or by scanning the above QR code.

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  • http://www.jeffreychew.com Jeff Chew

    Microsoft: Let’s make a twitter campaign that gets people to tweet about us, masking it as an ad campaign.

    Apple: Let’s create a donation page in iTunes, maybe we can get people to buy music while they’re donating.

    Google: Let’s create a search page registry so people can find each other in the chaos. I think updating our translate app would help too.

  • Guest

    As much as I don’t care for Android devices, these acts by Google may sway me eventually.

  • Anonymous

    I’m still wondering why Apple hasn’t donated a bunch of iPads so that rescuers can collect the information of the people they’ve found. The iPad would be an amazing tool for this.

    • http://www.jeffreychew.com Jeff Chew

      It would make Steve Jobs angry. You don’t want to see him angry.

  • Allen

    Awesome app for the Android! Used it in Hawaii and it worked well.

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