VentureBeat:

Google today announced that the camera within the Translate app for iOS and Android is now able to translate 13 new languages including Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Thai, and Vietnamese. The update is available starting today and will be rolled out to Translate users worldwide in the coming days, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.

Translation of text seen in photos or in real-time on billboards or menus was added for Google Translate in 2015, and started with 27 languages. To carry out visual translations, simply open the Translate app and choose the camera icon. Translations can be carried out in real time.

As I do research for a (belated) honeymoon in Florence, Italy and my photography workshop in Lisbon, Portugal, I’ve been testing the Google Translate app and I’m very impressed at how well it does. I don’t speak Italian or Portuguese so I don’t know how accurate the translations are but they are definitely good enough to get the basic idea.