- Google Translate appears to be working on a new pronunciation training mode.
- Users will be able to listen to voice samples, then record their own attempt.
- Translate will score their pronunciation and offer corrections to improve.
Translation apps like Google Translate are indispensable tools for anyone traveling internationally, helping us to navigate tricky language barriers. Besides just translating your message into a foreign tongue, Translate can also help teach you how to correctly pronounce it. Right now, that only works through listening to recordings — but it looks like it could be about to get a whole lot better.
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Run a translation through Google’s app right now, and you’ll see a speaker icon next to all your results that let you listen to a spoken voice sample. We recently saw the app preparing some upgrades here, like implementing a speed control so you could slow down those sample to pick up on their subtleties. That one’s still not live, but now we’re already spotting something much more advanced.
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