Updated Google Translator: Tap to Translate feature with offline translations

The official Google blog reports a significant update to the Google Translator mobile application. The main innovation is the function, which in the search giant is called Tap to Translate. It is designed to facilitate the translation of text on a mobile device, saving the user from the tedious operations of copying and pasting.

If the user updates the Google Translate application, then when copying any text to the clipboard in any application, a pop-up button will appear in the upper right corner. After clicking on it, a small translator window will appear with familiar functions, where you can see the translation of text taken from the clipboard, or select another language for translation. Thus, communicating in any messenger, the user no longer needs to perform a long sequence of steps: copy the text in an unfamiliar language, go to Google Translate, paste the text there and see the translation. If you want to send an answer in the language of the interlocutor, you will have to copy the phrase from the translator and paste it back into the messenger. The Tap to Translate demo is shown in the video below:


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A nice addition is that the translation function is available without the Internet, provided that the dictionaries are preloaded. Google says that they are aware of the problems of users who are limited by both the volume of Internet traffic and the internal storage of smartphones, and therefore radically reduced the size of the archive with a dictionary - by 90% at once. Now each of the 52 language packs takes about 25 MB.