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Google Translate to work in-app

Lauren Kate Rawlins
By Lauren Kate Rawlins, ITWeb digital and innovation contributor.
Johannesburg, 07 Oct 2015
TripAdvisor, WhatsApp and LinkedIn will all incorporate Google Translate into their apps.
TripAdvisor, WhatsApp and LinkedIn will all incorporate Google Translate into their apps.

Google's language translation app will soon be available to developers to incorporate into their messaging apps. This will allow users to translate conversations to another language without changing apps.

The company reported more than 500 million people translate over 100 billion words a day on Google Translate.

The feature will be rolled out this week, with 90 languages available for translation. The update will work on any Android device running the latest operating system: Android 6.0, Marshmallow.

"To get started, you first need to have the Translate app downloaded on your Android phone. From there, just go to an app, like TripAdvisor or LinkedIn, and highlight and select the text you want to translate," Barak Turovsky, Google Translate product lead, said in a blog post.

"This feature is already enabled in apps that use Android text selection behaviour. Developers who created custom text selection behaviour can also easily add the new feature."

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