Google Translate For Animals
Google Translate For Animals
Have you ever wanted to know what your backyard birds are really talking about? Well, the wait is over. Google has an app for that!
Google Translate For Animals
Google says:
Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. We’ve always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.
The Google video below briefly describes how their new technology works.
Google goes on to say that:
Translate for Animals is an application for Android phones that recognizes and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats for example. To develop Translate for Animals, we worked closely with many of the world’s top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Unfortunately, Google Translate is only available on Android phones, but with all the buzz about this new product, I’m sure it won’t be long before it’s on all smart phones!
Just listen to what the chicken says in the video below!
Here’s another video of Google Translate in action. For the rest of the videos, head over to Translate for Animals: Videos or go to Google’s main page for Translate for Animals.
