Are you going on a vacation to a foreign country? Or maybe you are just interested in learning a new language? An offline translator app might come in handy in such situations.
Translators have improved immensely in the last couple of years. Let’s take a look at the top 5 offline translator apps available in the market.
Top Five Offline Translator Applications
1. Google Translate
Google is one of the pioneers when it comes it speech recognition and translation. Google Translate is able to translate among 60 languages at the moment, and support for more languages is coming soon.
It features an extremely simple interface and elegant UI. Other than text input via the virtual keyboard, it also supports voice recognition, and text recognition from images.
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You can either use the app with a net connection, or you need to download the language packs to use it offline. Each language pack size varies from 150 MB to 300 MB, so keep only those languages that you need frequently.
The app is completely free, and can downloaded from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate )
2. Microsoft Translator
This app is developed by Microsoft, and its features are on par with Google Translate. It too supports over 60 languages, along with both online and offline use. Just like Google Translate, it can also recognize voices, and text from images including screenshots.
You can download this free application from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.translator&hl=en )
3. iTranslate Translator & Dictionary
iTranslate is another great app for offline translation. It supports around 100 languages, much more than Microsoft and Google, and also allows you to listen to the translations in a customizable voice.
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The basic app is completely free, but if you want offline translation, you will need to purchase the pro version. The application is available in the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.nk.tools.iTranslate )
4. Waygo
Waygo supports very few languages – Chinese, Japanese and Korean. However, its advantage is most other apps, including Google, don’t have support for these languages.
So Waygo is great if you are looking to go on a vacation to one of these countries, or just want to learn the language including the correct pronunciation. The application is free and can be downloaded from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waygoapp.waygo ). However, with the free version, you only get 10 translations everyday; the pro version has to be purchased for unlimited translations.
5. Naver Papago Translate
This app also supports only 10 languages, but has a much better vocabulary of these languages than others. It also offers real time translation which could be useful during a conversation. Moreover, it also offers a phrasebook – local expressions which often come up during conversations.
You can download the app for free from the Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naver.labs.translator&hl=en )
Hopefully with the help of these apps, you won’t need anyone else to translate something for you ever again!
