Meta adds all sorts of AI to WhatsApp, although if there’s one new feature I’m looking forward to, it’s instant translation. We knew this was happening last week and now we have more data on how it will work.
There translation will come on WhatsApp and for everyoneafter a handful of mobile phones can achieve something similar, like the Google Pixel or the latest Samsung Galaxy. This will help us to chat with people who speak other languages without anyone needing to use a translator.
This will be the translation of WhatsApp
This WhatsApp novelty is very interesting, because it will allow you to chat with people from all over the world even if you do not speak the same language. Everyone writes in their own language and WhatsApp takes care of the translations. In real time too, without doing anything.
We already knew that the translation technology was borrowed from Google and that we will need to download the language packs
What we needed to see was the translation itself, which WaBetaIno has now shown us. Here, Meta doesn’t overdo it and will reuse the same style he applies on Instagram or Facebook: will display the translated text and below a new label: “Translated”. It’s unclear if we can see the original message without having to turn off chat translation entirely.
WaBetaInfo also specifies in which languages the WhatsApp real-time translation will initially be available: Spanish, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and Hindi. Basically, it seems that it is the messages you receive that will be translated and not the ones you send. If this is the case, it will be up to the sender to enable message translation for them.
Real-time translation can be very useful when travelingbecause it is increasingly common to communicate with companies via WhatsApp and sometimes we do not understand the language. WhatsApp will do the translations automatically, without having to copy and paste into Google Translate or similar.
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