Google Translate for image-borne text

In another venue (cf.

<http://www.zdnet.com/google-translate-can-now-translate-text-in-images-through-your-phones-camera-7000002450/>),

with regard to Google's newly hatched ability to translate text found
within images, someone signing off as Todd Alcott wrote:

> The three or four dozen of us using Windows Phone 7 have had this feature quite a while already. (The speech or image is funneled through Bing servers instead of Google's of course.)
>
> In addition, the Windows Phone translate app lets you download language modules for offline use, which is handy for avoiding data roaming charges when traveling. internationally.

Are there more details to be shared here? For example, does Win Phone 6
have this feature too? Where to find said "Windows Phone translate app" and
its "language modules for offline use"?

TIA; and cheers, -- tlvp
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At 10 Aug 2012 14:12:43 -0400 tlvp wrote:
> In another venue (cf.
>
> <http://www.zdnet.com/google-translat...ext-in-images-
through-your-phones-camera-7000002450/>),
>
> with regard to Google's newly hatched ability to translate text found
> within images, someone signing off as Todd Alcott wrote:
>
> > The three or four dozen of us using Windows Phone 7 have had this
> > feature quite a while already. (The speech or image is funneled
> > through Bing servers instead of Google's of course.)
> >
> > In addition, the Windows Phone translate app lets you download
> > language modules for offline use, which is handy for avoiding data
> > roaming charges when traveling. internationally.
>
> Are there more details to be shared here? For example, does Win Phone 6
> have this feature too? Where to find said "Windows Phone translate app"
> and its "language modules for offline use"?


Sadly, there is no comparable WM6 version. A "'softie" (MS employee)
wrote a Translate app for touchscreen WM6 devices, but it only translates
typed text- essentially it's an app portal to the translate.bing.com site.

Like iPhones, Windows Phone 7 devices are limited to using apps
downloaded from a centralized proprietary app store run by the OS maker.
The WP7 Translate app is downloaded from the WP7 Marketplace, and the
offline dictionary modules are downloaded within the app.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:45:08 -0600, Todd Allcock wrote:

> At 10 Aug 2012 14:12:43 -0400 tlvp wrote:
>> In another venue (cf.
>>
>> <http://www.zdnet.com/google-translat...ext-in-images-
> through-your-phones-camera-7000002450/>),
>>
>> with regard to Google's newly hatched ability to translate text found
>> within images, someone signing off as Todd Alcott wrote:
>>
>>> The three or four dozen of us using Windows Phone 7 have had this
>>> feature quite a while already. (The speech or image is funneled
>>> through Bing servers instead of Google's of course.)
>>>
>>> In addition, the Windows Phone translate app lets you download
>>> language modules for offline use, which is handy for avoiding data
>>> roaming charges when traveling. internationally.
>>
>> Are there more details to be shared here? For example, does Win Phone 6
>> have this feature too? Where to find said "Windows Phone translate app"
>> and its "language modules for offline use"?
>
>
> Sadly, there is no comparable WM6 version. A "'softie" (MS employee)
> wrote a Translate app for touchscreen WM6 devices, but it only translates
> typed text- essentially it's an app portal to the translate.bing.com site.
>
> Like iPhones, Windows Phone 7 devices are limited to using apps
> downloaded from a centralized proprietary app store run by the OS maker.
> The WP7 Translate app is downloaded from the WP7 Marketplace, and the
> offline dictionary modules are downloaded within the app.

Thanks Todd. Makes me wiser, but sadder. Pity. I guess perhaps I should try
to dredge up a WP7 unit :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp
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At 11 Aug 2012 04:52:51 -0400 tlvp wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:45:08 -0600, Todd Allcock wrote:

> > Sadly, there is no comparable WM6 version. A "'softie" (MS employee)
> > wrote a Translate app for touchscreen WM6 devices, but it only
translates
> > typed text- essentially it's an app portal to the translate.bing.com
site.
> >
> > Like iPhones, Windows Phone 7 devices are limited to using apps
> > downloaded from a centralized proprietary app store run by the OS
maker.
> > The WP7 Translate app is downloaded from the WP7 Marketplace, and the
> > offline dictionary modules are downloaded within the app.
>
> Thanks Todd. Makes me wiser, but sadder. Pity. I guess perhaps I should
try
> to dredge up a WP7 unit :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp


Only if you can find one cheap. Windows Phone 8 will be released by year
end, and WP7 units can't be upgraded. (WP8 will offer a tighter
enterprise-level encryption/security model in hardware that WP7 handsets
can't handle.)

WP8 will be backwards compatible, so all 7 apps will run on 8, but apps
designed expressly for 8 won't run on 7.

Because of this, I expect prices of used 7 handsets to drop when 8 is
released, so I'll probably grab another one or two then for the kids to
use as combo pre-paid phones/media players, or hand my current WP7 Titan
down if I opt for an 8. What I really want is for Nokia to release a WP8
version of their 41MP Pureview camera phone.

http://ww.nokia.com/global/products/phone/808pureview/

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:13:51 -0600, Todd Allcock wrote:

> At 11 Aug 2012 04:52:51 -0400 tlvp wrote:
>> ... I guess perhaps I should try
>> to dredge up a WP7 unit :-) . ...
>
> Only if you can find one cheap. Windows Phone 8 will be released by year
> end, and WP7 units can't be upgraded. (WP8 will offer a tighter
> enterprise-level encryption/security model in hardware that WP7 handsets
> can't handle.)

I'll be checking the discarded-phone recycle-box at my univ. now & again.

> WP8 will be backwards compatible, so all 7 apps will run on 8, but apps
> designed expressly for 8 won't run on 7.
>
> Because of this, I expect prices of used 7 handsets to drop when 8 is
> released, so I'll probably grab another one or two then for the kids to
> use as combo pre-paid phones/media players, or hand my current WP7 Titan
> down if I opt for an 8. What I really want is for Nokia to release a WP8
> version of their 41MP Pureview camera phone.
>
> http://ww.nokia.com/global/products/phone/808pureview/

Hoo, boy! now that there's a *phone*! Cheers ,-- tlvp
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