Goggles search by sight software, now translates text into 15 languages

At the Mobile World Congress last February, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a new prototype of Google Goggles.

Goggles allows for search by sight, you take your phone out, point it at something of interest, take a photo then Google directs you to relevent search results.

Now a new version of the software incorporates text translation so if you take a picture of some text, you will have the option to translate it. Still in development at Google Mobile Labs, TIME tech writer Peter Ha was able to give it a try in a couple of restaurants near Google headquarters in New York and was impressed. Watch video.

Available for Android phones it will ultimately be platform neutral. It can "read" or visually scan words in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and translate them into any other of those languages plus about 10 more, including Afrikaans and Albanian — with additional languages coming soon.

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