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Thing Translator
Discontinued 2017 Google AI Experiment that identified objects in a photo and spoke their name in another language.
About Thing Translator
Thing Translator was a May 2017 AI Experiment by Dan Motzenbecker with Google Creative Lab. You took a picture of an object and heard how to say it in a different language, using Google's Cloud Vision and Translate APIs.
Google's Experiments page states the experiment is no longer active; only the description page and the source code remain.
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Cons & limitations
- Experiment is no longer active
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Sources & verification
Not yet verified against official sources. Status: Discontinued.
- Thing Translator - Experiments with Google (opens in a new tab) experiments.withgoogle.com
- Thing Translator app URL (resolves to Experiments page) (opens in a new tab) thing-translator.appspot.com
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