Translate Voice

What do you like best?

Google Translate Voice enables users to hear and see a translation of any word, term, or phrase they input in the app. Users can speak the word or phrase they want to translate as well as writing it. This is a very handy app for people who travel often, whether for pleasure or business. It does a very good job overall and is very helpful. Because Google Translate translates in real time (right away), you can hold a conversation with someone (as long as the topic is relatively simple).

What do you dislike?

As with all machine translations, translations on Translate Voice are not perfect and may not be 100% accurate. Translate Voice specifically has issues with colloquialisms. But other than that, it is a great tool for translating items when on vacation or business trips. I am bilingual in French and English and it does a very good gob overall translating from one language to the other. I have also used this tool when translating documents for the Immigration Clinic at St. Thomas and while I do not always use what Google comes up with, it sometimes helped me to get "unstuck" when translating materials.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Remember that machine translation may not always be accurate, especially when it comes to colloquialisms. But overall you can trust the translations that deal with easy common matters and words. You can count on Google to translate things immediately which enables users to have "conversations" with others in real time when in a different country. This is extremely helpful for those who travel often for pleasure or business. I have been very happy with this tool and highly recommend it. Just remember, if you are using it to translate long documents, have a native speaker proofread the documents as the system still makes mistakes.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

This tool comes in handy when completing translations for clients (in my case, clients at the Immigration Clinic at St. Thomas School of Law) and double-checking the meaning of terms. While the tool is not perfect, it does provide a great starting point. It helped me get "unstuck" when I was struggling with difficult terms and phrases. This tool would also come in very handy when vacationing or traveling for business as it is extremely easy to use. You could pull Google Translate up and have a conversation with someone almost in real time!