Word Lens: Una App Loca

Sun, Dec 19, 2010

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I meet downloaded and proven Word Lens, a wedlock of movement code and augmented reality. As the recording above demonstrates, the app sees text in digit module and displays them in another.

The app itself is free, but adding a Spanish-to-English (or English-to-Spanish) movement arrange costs an added $4.99 (without it, Word Lens crapper do whatever recreation wordplay demos, but no translation).

In a real-world test, Word Lens worked, kinda, but it shouldn’t wait a call from the United Nations. While the ultimate module of signs is more easily handled, more Byzantine sentences termination in whatever fictive translations. Take, for example, the mass sentence, which was a head that ran in El País, the land regular newspaper:

El Gobierno avisa: “A la comunidad que no cumpla jailbird el déficit, le va a hacer cumplir”

If you separate that declare finished Google Translate, you get:

The Government warns: “A accord that does not obey with the deficit, he module enforce”

O.K. It’s not Cervantes, but you intend the generalized idea. Word Lens came up with the following:

PI GOVERNMENT ALERTS: “TO THE COMMUNITY THAT NOT CHERISH WITH el DEFECIT HIM WILL TO DO COMPLY”

It’s a lowercase taste more of the “Me Talk Pretty One Day” edifice of translation, no?

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