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there are a number of apps out there that help you translate from one language to another but for the most part you're dealing with just written text but now the googles update to their free Google Translate app for iOS and Android users can now have spoken conversations and have them translated between two languages almost instantly to help demonstrate I've enlisted the help of CNET's multilingual dream team I'll be playing the role of the monolingual entitled white guy let's see if this app can help me out to get started I'll open up the app check that it's set to translate between English and the language I want to translate to and then tap the mic right now it's listening for English and when I stop it will automatically translate to Spanish so I'm gonna press the microphone a second time and then I can have a conversation with Vanessa all right so then how's it going note entiendo nada lo que me estas tratando de decir I do not understand anything of what you're trying to tell me notice haciendo followed SS aplicaciones b intestacy endo sonar comedy Otis as the application is doing favors rather tests sounding like an idiot right back atcha Vanessa to stop things I'll press the mic button again and now to change things up I'll talk to Seth in Japanese and I'll change the language setting from Spanish to Japanese then tap the mic button a few times to kick it into conversation hello Seth how are you doing today on YouTube this is I don't know you Lisa de gallo dated mmm kill was ago you sucka she does it it is amazing busy today I'm sorry that's close blows so sorry I hope they give you a break soon yeah watashi wa sushi ski doesn't I like sushi well okay I hope this weekend you get to enjoy some now for our last conversation I'm gonna try Russian with Boris take a minute here to get this started Boris thanks for joining me here and testing out this app buddy spicy pasta police minister - totally detectable Iranian spicy pasta progressively minion sudah thank you for inviting me here how's the translation so far this year period ah walnut which NASA be no truce : on beef translation pretty meat especially from Russian to English so there you go that's how to use Google Translate to translate conversations between two languages on the fly I think it's pretty cool keep in mind though that we're in this perfect quiet environment here if you're using this at a crowded noisy restaurant or using it outdoors you probably have a different outcomes we also have a great Wi-Fi connection here if your connection is spotty you have to keep in mind that all the translations happening in the cloud not directly on the phone so that data connection is really important still on all great app especially for travelers you can handle 90 different languages it can handle translating between text and scribbled input and even you can even use the camera to translate images of menus in written text in real time it's really cool check it out for more how-to s visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded bell thanks for watching you