Other features includes real-time translations as the user types, and a proprietary predictive text technology to reduce typo-based errors. There’s a text-to-speech component, powered by Acapela, along with the ability to sound translated words. It automatically detects the source of the language, rather than the user having to specify from a list.
Yandex’s original online translation service rolled out two years ago, and the app is powered by the same machine translation technology. In tandem it is also releasing a version of the app with a Ukrainian UI. and Israel, which it hopes will grow now that it’s adding an English UI. But the company claims there is “considerable interest” from mobile users in the U.S., China, France, the U.K. And 98% of all downloads come from Russia and Ukraine. The majority of the app’s current translations – more than 85% – are between Russian and English, according to Yandex.
Yandex, Russia’s ‘homegrown Google’, is adding an English interface to its Yandex.Translate app for iOS, along with support for more language translation pairs, in order to widen the app’s appeal and start building an international user-base. The original app launched in December with a Russian interface, offering translations between Russian and eight languages, including English, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian.Īs well as adding an English version of the app, Yandex has increased the supported English translation pairs from three options before (EnglishRussian, EnglishUkrainian, EnglishTurkish) to eight, with the addition of: EnglishSpanish, EnglishGerman, EnglishFrench, EnglishItalian and EnglishCzech.
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