Best gadget ever

It's super cool, right?

Just wanted to add that while it works in 'real-time', you can also import images from your camera roll for it, so snap a pic and translate later, or you can take a screen shot of, say, a website in a foreign language and import that for translation.

Could you pls put "Google Lens Translator" in your title? I'm bookmarking this, but still sometimes I can't find topics once all the Bookmarks stack up.
I really want to try this on our next trip.
Thanks so much for sharing! Safe travels!

I guess if I wanted to say decaffeinated I wouldn't have expected that. Non-alcoholic beer is alkoholfrei bier so I might have come up with Koffeinfrei. But if I had seen entkoffeiniert I would have known what it meant.

Actually, I remember learning somewhere that "German" words that end in -iert are often co-opted from French. "Was ist passiert" in German comes from French, meaning what happened, but the true German version is "Was ist geschehen".

Is this different than Google translate using the camera icon or Microsoft Translate app also using their camera icon? The Google app says Google Lens. Seems like they do the same thing. I downloaded and used those apps for a few years. They’re handy when you need them but sometimes they make mistakes.

I take a lot of photos, sometimes 200-400 in a day. Each night, I try to organize and label them. With so many photos, I sometimes forget the name or place of the photo. Using Google Lens, I can do a search and get the info. I can do this on the fly when I take a photo of something interesting and I have no idea what I am looking at.

I am an expat in a country that speaks a language derived from Martian. Without my phone camera and google translate I would have died of hunger long ago.

Yes artie, and sometimes forum posts are gibberish as well

@horsewoofie Google Lens and Google Translate can basically do the same thing - translate text using your camera. But I've noticed sometimes they give slightly different results. Ultimately it just comes down to which one you find gives you more accurate translations, but personally I tend to use Google Lens more out of familiarity. 👍

Phred,
I like using Google lens when traveling to identify birds and plants, also shells.

Thanks for the reminder, I have Google translate too, have used it to request decaf at the continental breakfast while on tour in Germany and Austria. Entkoffieniert is a hard word to remember….especially before I’ve had my morning coffee!