Google’s Now on Tap is adding near-instant translation to Android | The Verge

Google's Now on Tap is adding near-instant translation to Android | The Verge

Google's Now on Tap service  is adding translation to its ever-growing list of options. After the latest update, Android users will be able to translate any screen of foreign text — in both apps and web pages, including pages with multiple languages — into their native language. While it can seemingly translate from any language that Google Translate supports, it's only supported on Marshmallow phones whose default language is set to English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, or Russian. Using Google Translate on a phone is nothing new. This spring, a new Android feature let users highlight text in a foreign language and get a pop-up option to translate it. But Now on Tap should ideally make the process near-automatic — as with other Now on Tap functions, it's activated by holding down the phone's home button. It eliminates the sometimes awkward process of moving the cursor around a section of text, and it translates entire pages, not just selections.

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