WhatsApp is about to launch a new Android feature to translate chats

How multilingual are you? Sure, you know the international words from adios to namaste to zeitgeist, but when you have a long message in Spanish, German, or Chinese in a group chat on a messaging service, what do you do? WhatsApp has responded.

In the update that is in the works, WhatsApp translates all chat messages according to a reliably accurate site Wabetainfo. This feature works through a language package and the user will see a message that says, "Read your message with your preferred language" and choose to switch the switch so that all new messages in the selected thread can be converted. A group makes you choose the language to be presented to it. Suddenly, if the topic you're reading is mostly in another language, you don't have to painstakingly copy the message into an external translation app to keep up.

This can be useful in many situations, such as when a local housing association's WhatsApp group has an international constituency but the messages are in Spanish. You will no longer have to guess names and linguistic false friends will be eliminated. So "Me tengo constipado" will correctly appear as "I have a cold" instead of what I thought it meant. As WABetaInfo commented: “The ability to instantly translate messages during a conversation will help keep communication flowing, making it easier for users to understand and respond immediately Although this feature is still in development, it appears that WhatsApp is now working on it. Work is in progress. to further improve this feature with a new automatic translation option. The technology was previously reported to be based on Google's direct translation technology, but that seems to be gone. "It appears that WhatsApp is actually developing its own internal technology to support message translation," the report said. This has a great advantage for users, as "This approach still preserves end-to-end encryption, as their solution will process messages on the device. Therefore, WhatsApp needs to download some language packs to translate messages."

Not only is it more secure, but it makes interoperability between iPhone and Android users simpler. It's not clear if only incoming messages will be translated from the original language to your preferred language, or if they will be interpreted differently when you reply.