Google might be working on an app that would allow two people who speak different languages to chat in real-time.
A two-year old patent application that’s just been uncovered describes how two opposite-facing keyboards would be display on either end of a device, allowing mutually exclusive input.
The app would then use Google Translate to relay messages in the respective users’ languages, effectively allowing people to transcend language barriers to communicate with each other.
The patent is titled ‘display two keyboards on
We’re guessing it mentions tablets specifically because smartphone displays are too small to display two keyboards and two chat-boxes.
It’s an interesting idea, but we’re not yet convinced whether Google Translate is up to scratch to handle real-time translation.
Google Translate can often be inaccurate, especially with non-European, non-Latin based languages, which leads to iffy results.
Plenty of linguistic guesswork would likely be needed on the part of the users for something like this to find real-world application, but the fact that this patent exists could drive Google to up its game with Google Translate and improve translation output.
Of course there’s no telling whether Google will even make use of the patent and release an app as described in the plans.
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Via: BGR
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