Our new App iTranslate Converse is featured right now on TheVerge, is a top app on the App Store as well as Top Trending on ProductHunt.

iTranslate's new app gets us one step closer to simple, real-time translation

So what is the buzz all about:

iTranslate Converse literally turns your iPhone into a translation device. But you might ask: what is so unique about yet another speech translation App?

Well, iTranslate Converse brings 3 major innovations that may seem small on first sight but actually make a huge difference when using the App in real life scenarios. But here’s some background, before I go into these:

At iTranslate we are creating translation products since over 7 years now. Our special focus always has been speech translation which, as we believe, is going to fundamentally change the way people communicate with each other. From what we can tell, the industry is still in its very early days and we are far away from a perfect product.

When it comes to translation products, most people tend to focus a lot on the technology part, the AI if you want. Of course machine translation is what fundamentally enables any translation product and the industry as a whole is doing its best to gradually improve the quality. However, what people often forget, is that a good translation product is not only about the underlying technology but also about how you interact with it.

With iTranslate Converse our primary goal is to improve the user interaction layer to solve 3 areas that create a lot of friction:

1. It should work robust in all environments, even if there is background noise.
2. It should be fast and fun to use.
3. It should be simple and natural to do a back & forth conversation.

To solve those problems we are introducing 3 innovations to iTranslate Converse:

1. We force users to flip the phone upside down. There are 2 reasons for that: first, you get much better speech inputs, because it puts the Microphone much closer to your mouth. Second, it is also more natural to do a back and forth conversation holding the phone like that.
2. We turn the entire screen into one huge button that can be controlled with 2 simple gestures: Tap & Hold to speak and and release to translate. This gives you full control over start & stop, which means way less unintended inputs. If you turn on 3D touch haptic feedback in the App’s settings you don’t even need to look at the screen anymore.
3. The third innovation is automatic language detection (between the 2 selected languages). In most translation Apps you need to make a deliberate choice of the language before speaking. With auto detection you simply speak and the App figures out the language itself, which makes conversations much simpler.

In a nutshell: You flip the phone to hold it like a microphone. You Tap & Hold to speak and release to translate.

The end result is a speech translation App that is blazing fast, fun to use and works way better in many real life scenarios especially in noisy environments (we even tested it in a club and it worked pretty good).

However, you need to really feel it to get it. So please go ahead and feel free to download the iTranslate Converse App right now from the App Store — it’s free:

iTranslate Converse on the App Store

Our journey doesn’t stop there though: one of the biggest critics of speech translation Apps remains that they require an active Internet connection. Especially for speech translations Apps this is a problem, since they are most useful abroad. Our goal is to change that as well. Stay tuned…

For now, thanks to the amazing people at iTranslate for making this happen!

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Now that iOS 10 is available, we’re excited to unveil to you what we’ve been working on: The new iTranslate iMessage App. With iTranslate’s iMessage App, you’ll be able to have fully translated conversations in over 90 languages. We’re bringing the power of instant translation that you enjoy with iTranslate into any app with our new iOS Keyboard extension.

Both the iTranslate iMessage App and the iOS keyboard extension are included for free with the latest update of iTranslate for iOS 10.

Here’s what people are saying about iTranslate for iMessage

“iTranslate — This is a game changer. Choose the language you want to translate into and simply start typing. iTranslate will then seamlessly turn your words into the relevant foreign sentence.”- Huffington Post

You’d be hard pressed to find a more capable tool than iTranslate that offers seamless bilingual communication, especially with its new iMessage app. - AppAdvice.com

First look at iTranslate’s iMessage app in action

Customize your keyboard. Voice to text translation. Over 90 languages.

Translation in millions of apps with iTranslate’s new iOS Keyboard

In addition to launching the iTranslate iMessage App today, we also have a completely new iOS keyboard. We always wanted a way to bring iTranslate into every app. We decided to put time into working on the best solution for this, and realized that having an iOS keyboard extension as a free feature within iTranslate would be an excellent way to break the language barrier in any app that uses the iOS keyboard. This means translation in over 90 languages within apps like Email, Safari, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Slack.

We added in features, such as having the option to choose your keyboard color to match the apps you use, as well as show flag emojis of the language’s country that you’re receiving and sending messages in for easy language recognition.

Here’s what it looks like when using iTranslate’s iOS Keyboard in popular apps:

Get iTranslate today for free

When you download iTranslate on the app store, you’ll get both the iTranslate iMessage App and the iOS Keyboard extension for free.

To use the iMessage App:
1. Your iPhone must be updated to iOS 10, and iTranslate must be updated to version 10.3.
2. Open a conversation in Messages, tap the App Store icon, then tap the apps icon on the bottom left of your screen.
3. Select iTranslate, and now you’re using the new iMessage app!

To set up the Keyboard Extension:

1. Open your phone’s Settings
2. Go to General > Keyboard > Keyboards > iTranslate
3. Allow Full Access (don’t worry, we’ll never share any of your data anywhere).
4. Open any app that uses a keyboard. Press and hold the “globe” icon on the bottom left of your keyboard, then select iTranslate and you’re good to go!

Thank you for supporting us!

We really appreciate all of the support we’re seeing today, so thank you for helping share iTranslate with your friends and followers. Thanks to the press for showing us so much love, too.

Feel free to let us know what you think of our new iMessage App and keyboard at @iTranslate on Twitter, and continue sharing with your friends, please. We’re excited to continue improving and breaking language barriers for everyone.

iTranslate’s new iMessage App and iOS Keyboard is now available was originally published in iTranslate on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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