Google Translate for Smartphone basically requires an Internet connection service to work. It allows you to translate language on your device by using online dictionaries. If you usually use Google Translate when you take a trip or study, you may not have internet connection all the time to use the services. The Google Translate Android app has support for offline translation through offline translation packs for fifty languages. This also allows translation of vertical text in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean through the mobile device's Camera.
However, receiving the results of a translated text could take much longer time when a network is not permanent. To avoid such situations, you can download the data of the languages that you typically use in the phone so that you can use them at anytime you want, even without an Internet connection. Offline translation would be really useful in situations where users are traveling and have poor reception, or are without mobile data access. This may also be a problem while on International data roaming, which is extremely expensive.
This tutorial will show you how to download the languages on your Smartphones. Kindly follow the steps given below.
This tutorial will show you how to download the languages on your Smartphones. Kindly follow the steps given below.
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- If you want to use Google Translate offline, you must have the Google Translate app on your Android phone. If it is not installed it on your phone, head to the Google Play Store to download it. Once you are ready, connect to a WiFi network, and launch the app from the app drawer.
- Inside the app, tap the overflow menu icon at the top, and then choose Settings from the list.
- Next, in the Settings screen, choose the Manage offline languages section.
- The offline language section is divided into two sections. The Installed section shows language packs already available for use without an Internet connection, while the All section lists all the language packs that you can download for offline use. If you find any unwanted language pack in the list, you can remove it from the phone by tapping on the blue pin icon.
- To download a new language for offline use, find the item in the All list, and tap the gray pin icon. Next, you will see a prompt window which includes information about the language package and its size. The size of the package usually range from 150MB to 200MB. If the size is acceptable to you, tap OK to start the download process.
- The estimated download completion time depends on the size of the file and the network speed. You can track the progress of the download by pulling down the notification panel.
- Once the task is complete, you can start using Google Translate without an Internet connection.
