{"id":174741,"date":"2019-11-14T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1810496\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:38:45","slug":"google-maps-audibly-translates-place-names-so-you-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/14\/google-maps-audibly-translates-place-names-so-you-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Audibly Translates Place Names, So You Don\u2019t Have To"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Navigating a foreign country where you don’t speak or read the language can be\u2026 interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

So Google Maps is adding a new translation feature that lets your phone do the speaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gone are the days of anxiously trying to talk to a taxi driver in Spanglish or accidentally offending a local when asking for directions in broken Italian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting this month, world travelers can tap the new speaker button next to a place name or address and Google Maps will say it out loud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Need to know more about your destination? Want to thank the Good Samaritan? Hoping to score with a cute passerby? Click “Get more translations” to open the Google Translate app (if you have it installed).<\/span><\/p>\n

The text-to-speech technology automatically detects what language your phone is using, to determine which places you might need help translating.<\/span><\/p>\n

If your phone is set to English, for instance, and you’re looking at a place of interest in Tokyo, the speaker icon will appear next to the location’s name and address.<\/span><\/p>\n

“So you can get a real-time translation,” Google Maps Product Manager Laszlo de Brissac wrote in a blog announcement<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t be too offended if the app tries to help steer you through Paris, when you took four years of high-school French. There does not appear to be a way to turn off certain languages that users may already know.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that case, just ignore the speaker icon and <\/span>tu te fais<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new feature is rolling out this month to Android and iOS users, with support for 50 languages (including Japanese) and more on the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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