Google Translate For Android Gets Upgraded “Conversation Mode”

Itching to strike up a conversation with a certain foreign someone, but the language barrier is too much to overcome? Never fear, you wannabe polyglot: the latest update to the Google Translate Android app adds 12 new languages to conversation mode. Conversation mode, if you haven't seen it, is a nifty feature exclusive to the Android version of Google Translate. It takes a user's voice input, translates it into a different language, plays the translation out loud, and repeats the process in reverse. It sounds a bit cumbersome, but it works reasonably well and provides a (nearly) real-time way to converse with your foreign friends.

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