{"id":412,"date":"2011-03-16T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-03-16T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:34:42","slug":"google-translate-mobile-app-a-life-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2011\/03\/google-translate-mobile-app-a-life-saver\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate a Life Saver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:495px;height:390px;\"><div class=\"imagecaptioneasy imagecaptioneasy_top_nowrap\" style=\"width:px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/crisisresponse\/japanquake2011_translate.html\"><img decoding=\"async\"  style=\"position:absolute;clip:rect(0px,492px,382px,0px);float:right\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/crisisresponse\/images\/japanquake2011\/translate.png\" alt=\"Google Translate Mobile App\" title=\"Google Translate Mobile App\"\/><\/a><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><span>Google Translate Mobile App<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the Japan&#8217;s east coast, I found a this on Google, Google Translate for Android Phones. <\/p>\n<p>A few years back, I studied aboard in Japan. In the beginning, it wasn&#8217;t easy living there, since I only knew the very basics of the language. The part that made it even harder was that even though I studied for countless hours, I still had a hard time understanding what they said. But eventually, with time, the words and phrases started to come together and make more sense.<\/p>\n<p>During my time aboard, I&#8217;ve lived in Taiwan and Japan and Google&#8217;s Mobile App <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/\" alt=\"Google Translate\">Google Translate<\/a> would have a been a life saver. There&#8217;s even a mobile app called Google Goggles for the Android Phone that allows you to translate text capture by your camera into your choice of language.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m astonished by the technological advancement made in natural language processing and voice recognition. Those two applications would have helped me open up more and get a better grip on what&#8217;s going on around me.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend these two application for anyone adventuring to a foreign county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate\">Google Translate for Google Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/goggles\/\">Google Goggles for Google Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>My Pictures from Japan and Taiwan<\/h2>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<div class=\"imagecaptioneasy imagecaptioneasy_nowrap\" style=\"width:px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/utastudyabroad\/4128984912\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2625\/4128984912_99d5451f90.jpg\" alt=\"Yamagata University in Japan\"\/><\/a><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><span>Yamagata University in Japan<\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"imagecaptioneasy imagecaptioneasy_nowrap\" style=\"width:px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/utastudyabroad\/4128214823\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2526\/4128214823_92f07b9704.jpg\" title=\"=\"Taiwanese Temple\"\" alt=\"Taiwanese Temple\" \/><\/a><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><span>Taiwanese Temple<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"imagecaptioneasy imagecaptioneasy_nowrap\" style=\"width:px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2590\/4128215071_f6294d5927.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr Study Aboard Taiwan's Mountain View\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2590\/4128215071_f6294d5927.jpg\" title=\"Flickr Study Aboard Taiwan's Mountain View\" alt=\"Flickr Study Aboard Taiwan's Mountain View\"\/><\/a><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><span>Flickr Study Aboard Taiwan's Mountain View<\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"imagecaptioneasy imagecaptioneasy_nowrap\" style=\"width:px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2531\/4128215129_bf0af9bdae.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Driving in Taiwan\" title=\"Driving in Taiwan\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2531\/4128215129_bf0af9bdae.jpg\"\/><\/a><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><span>Driving in Taiwan<\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<h2>Funny Videos using Google Translate<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxDRburxwz8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eTv27DF4kY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Learn Japanese with Minna no Nihongo. Link below.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=baterucom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=4883191028&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Please leave your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Translate Mobile App Four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the Japan&#8217;s east coast, I found a this on Google, Google Translate for Android Phones. A few years back, I studied aboard in Japan. In the beginning, it wasn&#8217;t easy living there, since I only knew the very basics of the language. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2011\/03\/google-translate-mobile-app-a-life-saver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Translate a Life Saver<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,42],"tags":[52,51,47,13,32,167,53,50,49,168,48,54],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","category-life-larry-battle","category-life","tag-google-goggles","tag-google-translate","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-larry-battle","tag-life","tag-natural-language-processing","tag-photos","tag-study-aboard-2","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwanese","tag-voice-to-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}