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If you're interested in helping with disaster scenarios in Spanish speaking countries, you would most likely be better served by a few months of duolingo (or ot
by GuiA 9y ago
If you're interested in helping with disaster scenarios in Spanish speaking countries, you would most likely be better served by a few months of duolingo (or other language learning course/app). It'd be cheaper, more useful for you in general (e.g. you would also be able to make sense of written text, which this product alone does not cover), and you wouldn't be reliant on a charged phone + charged earbuds + cellular connection, which might be a hard trio of requirements to fulfill in disaster scenarios.
(These considerations don't address the fact that there are most likely many other people who do speak Spanish and are willing to volunteer, and assistance organizations would probably prefer those to someone with Google's latest gadget)
- dlubarov 9y ago> you would also be able to make sense of written text, which this product alone does not cover Google Translate does have a feature where you can take a photo, OCR the text and translate it - https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142483 https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142483
- GuiA 9y ago"this product" = earbuds The translation overlay on camera feed feature of Google Translate is great, and it does not suffer from most of the problems I outlined in my original post. It is for a very different kind of use case though (it's more about solving the problem of "what does this menu/street sign say?", rather than trying to offer full conversation live translation)
- macintux 9y agoI don't have to leave the US to find disaster situations where knowing Spanish would be useful. Yes, clearly actually knowing the language would be better.
- goialoq 9y agoThis is absurd. There are Spanish (and Tagolog, and Chinese, and...)-speaking people all over the world who don't speak the local language. There is no army of translators available at every location in the world all the time. There are plenty of disasters that don't destroy wireless networking connectivity.