SwiftKey for Android Adds In-App Translations for Texts

Texting with someone who speaks a different language is hard. Microsoft wants to brand information technology easier via its SwiftKey keyboard app.

The Android version of SwiftKey at present offers in-app translations, powered by Microsoft Translator, allowing for bilingual text chats. That ways "you'll exist able to quickly and hands translate on your SwiftKey Keyboard, without having to leave your in-app conversations or having to re-create and paste text to translate," the SwiftKey team wrote in a blog post.

The update lets you translate incoming and approachable letters, so you'll understand what the other person is saying, and they'll understand you. The characteristic supports more than than 60 languages. To try it out, update or download the SwiftKey Android app.

If you as well have Microsoft Translator installed on your device, you'll even be able to get translations when you're offline.

"Whether Facebook Messaging with family, using WhatsApp to stay in bear upon with friends abroad, or emailing to accommodate an important concern meeting, this new feature helps you brand your indicate across languages without any embarrassing lost-in-translation moments," the SwiftKey team wrote.

There'south no word every bit to whether Microsoft plans to bring this feature to SwiftKey for iOS as well.

The update comes after SwiftKey in March received its biggest update since condign function of Microsoft nearly two years agone. The update added a new Toolbar carte du jour for like shooting fish in a barrel access to things like emoji, GIFs, settings, themes, and more. To admission it, merely press the "+" push button on the left side of the prediction bar.

Nearly Angela Moscaritolo

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