{"id":381,"date":"2014-05-17T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine3.com\/demo\/techsavvy\/?p=381"},"modified":"2014-05-17T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T22:07:00","slug":"google-acquires-quest-visual-and-its-awesome-word-lens-translating-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/google-acquires-quest-visual-and-its-awesome-word-lens-translating-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell to fix flaw of its own making that puts its computers at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has acquired Quest Visual for an undisclosed amount. In doing so, the company has picked up a means for augmenting its translation capabilities in Android and Google Glass, in addition to bolstering its own Google Translate service with Quest Visual’s eye-catching technology.<\/p>\n

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Quest Visual’s primary app,\u00a0Word Lens, allows a person to flip on the camera of their Android or iOS device and use it to frame a series of words they don’t otherwise understand \u2014 like a road sign printed in a foreign language, for example. In a perfect world, Word Lens recognizes the text and automatically replaces it with whatever you’ve elected to translate it to: French to English, English to Spanish, et cetera.<\/p>\n

The app is primary for going between English and a second language, and vice versa, as language packs that one could previously purchase (and are now free, thanks to the acquisition) are all combinations of English and another language: Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, German, or Portuguese. The app works without any kind of network signal, which is a boon for those travelling. It also works with Google Glass, for those of you who have become recent explorers for the $1,500 device.<\/p>\n

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Google has acquired Quest Visual for an undisclosed amount. In doing so, the company has picked up a means for augmenting its translation capabilities in Android and Google Glass, in addition to bolstering its own Google Translate service with Quest Visual’s eye-catching technology. Quest Visual’s primary app,\u00a0Word Lens, allows a person to flip on the … Continue reading “Dell to fix flaw of its own making that puts its computers at risk”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[42,169],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dell","tag-word-lens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampforwp.com\/demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}