Google launches Translate for Animals Android app

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Google has released its Translate for Animals application for Android that enables the search giant to encourage greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.

With this incredible Google Translate for Animals application, which is available now, you can select the animal from a menu and then translate their noises into human language.

Google explains that making the world’s information universally accessible is a major goal for Google. Language is one of the biggest challenges they have in this area, so for the past year they have been targeting their efforts on removing language barriers between the species. They were excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which will allow them to better understand animal friends.

They have always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human. This application will be available on Google’s Android operating system, enabling you to finally find out what your dog, cat or even chicken is saying to you.

This app is built on the Android mobile operating system, Translate for Animals is an application for your phone recognizing and transcribing common words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats, for example.

In order to develop Translate for Animals, they 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.

Hugh Liddle, engineer on Translate for Animals, told that: “People spend a lot of time with their animals – in many cases, years of daily interaction. In line with Google’s goal to open up access to information, our mission on the Translate for Animals team is to make that information available across languages. During the course of product development, we realised that understanding Fido or Lassie is an age-old problem that our technology could plausibly solve.

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To get the app on your Android phone, use a barcode scanning application to download directly from this QR code.