Lost in translation: Waygo app transforms Chinese and Japanese into English offline in real time

If you are wandering the streets of Beijing or Tokyo, lost in translation, the Waygo app for Android and iOS is just for you. It offers to translate Chinese or Japanese without a data connection, which, say, Google Translate can do as well, if you download the respective language packs.

Waygo, however, claims to do this in real time. It uses your phone's camera as an optical character recognition tool, and scans the text you fit in a small box on the screen, converting it into English immediately. As you move the phone's camera down the page, Waygo keeps translating for you, ...



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