iTranslate Voice

I love this app and recommend it often! I have used this app regularly for several years and am now able to communicate with a friend from another country that would never have been possible without this app. I can speak my sentence and it types the words I am saying in English, so that I can verify that it heard me correctly before translating. This is huge, because sometimes it does not pick up my dialect correctly and I can correct it before it translates a sentence that would not make sense. Then when I hit translate, it writes the translation out in Spanish for her to read while she is listening to it speak., and vice versa. I can also very easily send her the translation in a text, by hitting send if we are not in the same room. I appreciate that the voice is very pleasant and fluid, the app picks up on grammatical cues and adds commas and periods when it repeats back what I have said, keeping it from sounding automated or computer generated, so we can have conversations without ever feeling like we are having to use a go between to understand each other. Also, many apps only offer Castellion Spanish from Spain, however this app also recognizes that Spanish from Mexico is different and has it listed as a separate language choice. Some apps give less than accurate translations, this one has always been very accurate.

I have enjoyed Using this app several times in India , italy and am having fun with French . Gearing up for a trip . It can be a problem with out good internet connection and you don’t want to over load with long sentences . It will give back nonsense . But my friend from Japan And I had a hysterical time trying to communicate through it while we where together in India . Best to make short and simple sentences and study ahead some basics so your library is established in case your WiFi isn’t on when you actually need it . It can be really fun and also very spot on !

The single-language (English and .... Spanish, for example) translator/dictionaries are much better at what they do, and are less expensive or free. This one is eight dollars but gives you many idioms in one app. ; nice if you're traveling through Europe for example. Its main voice translation competitor right now is Speak & Translate ... but it's a hefty twenty bucks! S & T is slightly superior in several areas, like voice volume for instance. Yes, that's very important in a product like this because it's often being used in noisy environments. and since you're mostly listening (or asking the OTHER person to listen) to a foreign jumble of syllables, you want a higher degree of sharpness & clarity & volume coming from your tiny little smartphone speaker. The text-only version of iTranslate is free and works quite well, so you might want to check that out first before spending the $8 for the voice version.