
This is a new interface within Google Translate that’s optimized to allow you to communicate fluidly with a nearby person in another language. We also want to let you in on an experimental feature that’s still in its earliest stages-Conversation Mode. Among other improvements, we’ve created better dropdown boxes to help select the languages you want to translate from and into, an improved input box, and cleaner icons and layout.

Today, we’re refreshing Translate for Android with several updates to make the app easier to interact with.

We also offered voice input to let you speak the word or phrase you wanted to translate instead of typing it in, and SMS translation so you could translate SMS messages sent to you in foreign languages. For the first time, we were bringing the capabilities supported on Google Translate-like machine translation, romanization of non-Roman scripts and spoken translations-to the Android platform.

When we launched the first version of Google Translate for Android in January 2010, we were excited about the year ahead. ( Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Translate Blog.
