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Greek to English convert app

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I recently saw a program where people hovered their mobile phones over a foreign language and the camera converted it to english. Presumably there are apps that do this, that are simple enough for me. I need to convert greek to english. Can anyone recommend please. I've found a couple but removed them as I couldn't get on with them.

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  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 2,705 Forumite
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    Google Translate?
  • Yes, as above, Translate is fairly good and is easy to use and logs phrases that have been translated.
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,548 Forumite
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    Just be aware that most translation software (including Google Translate) may give you a clumsy looking translation.

    If I type the well-known keyboard test "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" into Google Translate, convert it into Greek and then convert the the resulting Greek text back into English, I get "The fast brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", though of course the more you do this from language to language the more detached from reality it gets.

    If I translate the above sentence from English into Greek and then Greek into Welsh, it becomes a doing phrase - "fox is jumping over the lazy dog". Moving to Japanese it becomes "a" fox and "a" dog. Feeding that through Arabic and then to Swahili and back to English, we end up with a "fast brown frustrated jumping close unknown English instrument". Brilliant!
  • 'Word Lens' could be the one that your looking for.
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