Microsoft adds augmented reality to Windows Phone's Bing Translator

Microsoft adds augmented reality to Windows Phone's Bing Translator:






Microsoft has updated its Bing Translator app for Windows Phone with a number of impressive features. First up is an augmented reality translator, which uses the phone's camera and overlays text in your native language within a couple of seconds. It's an interesting take on the search by image or video idea that's been popularized by Google Googles on Android, but is swift enough (and largely accurate enough) to make on-the-go translation feasible. It's similar to Word Lens for iOS, though looks to offer a far broader range of languages — while Word Lens only supports English, French, and Spanish, Bing can interpret English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Simplified Chinese.
Other new features include a conversation mode, which...
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