Can Your Phone Translate Signs On The Fly?

SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/CEsJyN
FOLLOW US: Twitter: NatAndLo
TWEET THIS: http://ctt.ec/s6qdB

If you’ve ever pressed the little camera button in the Google Translate app and used its instant camera translations feature, you know how crazy, sci-fi it is. So naturally, we wanted to know... how does it actually work?

More Google Translate stuff:
*Get the app (for Android or iOS) – http://g.co/gettranslate
*Bonus demo video (to the tune of "La Bamba") – http://g.co/go/labamba

Thanks to our musically-gifted friends, Vibe Mountain and Huma-Huma, (http://www.huma-huma.com) for letting us use lots of their awesome music in this episode. (Full music credits in order of appearance below to help answer the age old question "What song is that?")

“Red Rooster” by Huma Huma
“Alberta” by Vibe Mountain
“Bed Head” by Huma Huma
“Thousands” by Huma Huma
“Jake Goes Snowing” by Huma Huma
“The Sign (Instrumental)” by Vibe Mountain

And thanks to Otavio’s friend Jelena Jovanovic for the quadcopter wedding footage!


:)
Nat & Lo's 20% Project
natandlo – a show about all the stuff that we're curious about at Google.

• #science_technology
• #google
• #behind_the_scenes
• #nat_and_lo
• #nat_and_los_20_project
• #nat_and_los_20_percent_project
• #nat_and_lo_20_project
• #nat_lo
• #nat_los_20_project
• #20_project
• #20_percent_project
• #google_translate
• #word_lens
• #otavio_good
• #otavio
• #how_google_translate_makes_signs_instantly_readable
• #google_translate_camera
• #google_translate_app
• #translate_app
• #google_translate_signs
• #google_translate_demo
• #instant_translate
• #google_translate_explained
• #how_google_translate_works