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Unfortunately, all of their text-recognition is still done on the cloud. So If you're traveling, you most likely won't have a data plan in the country you're vi
by unholiness 12y ago
Unfortunately, all of their text-recognition is still done on the cloud. So If you're traveling, you most likely won't have a data plan in the country you're visiting, and word lens won't work. This seems like a huge missing piece to me.
It's strange because they let you download language packs so that all the translation (and voice recognition) can be done locally. I have no knowledge in this area, but honestly: is there something fundamental about text recognition that it can't be done client-side?
- teraflop 12y ago> is there something fundamental about text recognition that it can't be done client-side? Since the blog post talks about how Google Translate now does client-side text recognition, I suspect the answer to this question is "no".
- nness 12y agoNowadays Pocket Wifi's or data SIMs for your phone/tablet are fairly cheap and ubiquitous, if you're travelling to the parts of the world supported by the feature, you'll likely have a decent connection.
- bucketsofdirt 12y agoGoogle Translate came pre-installed on my handy, but since data is expensive- at least here in Germany- I removed it and defaulted to an offline German <=> English dictionary. After reading this post and watching the video I decided I'd give it another go and I'm glad I did. In order to do translation w/out using data each and every time you have to: 1. Open the Translate app 2. Tap the options icon; top right 3. Tap "Settings" 4. Tap "Manage Offline Languages" 5. Select the language you would like available offline and how you'd like to download it( wifi only, wifi 3G, etc ) The German language pack is about 300mb, but that's nothing compared to the cost over time of using the app; data cost. Let's just hope they don't pull a SketchUp with this.