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Dear Translate on HMS vs Google Translate on GMS

Being able to translate language can come in very handy when you're traveling to different countries. Smartphones have the ability to translate speech, text, or photos in real-time. There are many different apps that offer these features but we are going to focus on Dear Translate and Google Translate.

While Google Translate is one of the most popular solutions for this, it's not available to newer Huawei phones that don't support GMS. Dear Translate is an HMS alternative that is available for free from the Huawei AppGallery.

Google Translate on GMS

Google Translate offers instant translation from many different types of inputs. It works with text input, camera access, or audio input. Pointing your camera at a sign or literature from another language will let Google Translate translate the text into your chosen language. To use the audio input, you can just speak your sentence into your phone, and then let your phone read it out in the target language.

When using Google translate to communicate in real-time, the best feature to use is called "Conversation". This feature lets you choose two languages and provides you with an interface designed to be used with both parties. Each person presses their microphone icon when they speak, and the language is translated for both people.

For offline translation, you can download 59 different languages, for using your app in locations where the internet is not available.

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Google Translate Features:

Text translation: Translate between 103 languages by typing

Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages)

Offline: Translate with no internet connection (59 languages)

Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (88 languages)

Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (50 languages)

Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (43 languages)

Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (95 languages)

Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)

Cross-device syncing: Login to sync phrasebook between app and desktop

Dear Translate on HMS:

If you're looking for an HMS alternative to Google Translate, Dear Translate might be your best option. This free app is available on AppGallery and is currently ad-free. It supports many similar features to Google Translate like text translate, camera-based AR translate, voice translate, and more.

The app is missing a feature comparable to the conversation feature in Google Translate. This is the only feature that I found myself missing from the Dear Translate app, and you'll be able to function without it. Overall Dear Translate offers more compatible languages than Google Translate for the features that it supports.

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Dear Translate Features:

Support translation in 107 languages, meeting your need for translation when studying, working, going abroad, and traveling.

Languages: support translation in 107 languages such as English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian, and Spanish, covering 186 countries.

Text translation: translate the text you type in, and support translation in 107 languages.

AR translation: translate upon scanning with a camera, with no need of shooting.

Simultaneous translation: with streaming speech recognition, translate while you are speaking.

Photo translation: with the powerful function of camera-based OCR word capturing and photo translation, translate what you shoot.

Emotion translation: funny emotion translation, making the translation more interesting.

Off-line translation: a free dictionary translation application supporting off-line translation, to translate when you are traveling abroad and network connection is unavailable.

Dear Translate is a great free app that is a nice solution for anyone who needs to translate languages using their Huawei phone. The app really highlights the abilities of HMS Core.