Gboard 6.1 Beta adds ability to translate text within the keyboard

03 March 2017
Also includes a new theme selector and emoji predictions.

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  • Anonymous
  • r3H
  • 09 Mar 2017

it's a welcome development but Google needs to improve the prediction and let it meet up with Samsung's and add the button to predict more than 3 words.

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    • AnonD-634681
    • 3DR
    • 05 Mar 2017

    the translate in keyboard is something I could do with, shame the beta testing is full, might as well just put everyone on the beta and allow easy downgrade if problems occur tbh

      Geez! This is meant to be a keyboard so let it be a keyboard!

      I expect that at this rate of scope creep, the application will get so bloated and clunky that soon, it won't be usable on any but high end devices.

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        • AnonD-399550
        • L0Y
        • 04 Mar 2017

        Great. But adding support for multiple languages on iPhone is too difficult. I guess.

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          • AnonD-503930
          • iwp
          • 04 Mar 2017

          Keyboard+google search=gboard ,
          Keyboard+google search& translate= gtboard
          What else to put there google..?
          Im impressed..haha..

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            • AnonD-92238
            • gMJ
            • 04 Mar 2017

            Julliard, 04 Mar 2017Make sure you installed the Gboard Beta version and not the... moreIt was just a misinformation from Androidpolice, I was trying to find translation key in numbers row as they suggested, found it behind the Google key.

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              • Saddy
              • vbU
              • 04 Mar 2017

              Where to get this beta version

                AnonD-92238, 03 Mar 2017Installed this yesterday, still can't find the translation ... moreMake sure you installed the Gboard Beta version and not the stable released Gboard. The normal Gboard still on v6.0.79. The beta version is v6.1.

                  What the purpose of translating text when you cant even read it after it translated into different languages? How can I be sure the translation is correct?

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                    • Anonymous
                    • nFG
                    • 04 Mar 2017

                    .Mr.Dot, 03 Mar 2017what I'm trying to say is that when they chat on you in dif... moreI think you're forgetting what this app's primary purpose is which is text input. Translating text you're inputting makes sense but translating text on screen doesn't.

                    Besides, Google already has a way for you to quickly translate.

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                      • AnonD-351867
                      • IiB
                      • 03 Mar 2017

                      .Mr.Dot, 03 Mar 2017what I'm trying to say is that when they chat on you in dif... morenope, but you can use google translator app for that, just enable tap to translate and use now on tap when you want to translate a text. it's easy

                        Impressive. I so needed that feature for my foreign friends online.

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                          • .Mr.Dot
                          • P@Y
                          • 03 Mar 2017

                          AnonD-351867, 03 Mar 2017Lol why will the person that you are trying to text need to... morewhat I'm trying to say is that when they chat on you in different language it will automatically translated to your chat box so that you can understand of their respond

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                            • AnonD-92238
                            • gMJ
                            • 03 Mar 2017

                            Installed this yesterday, still can't find the translation feature

                              As far as idea is cool, some language use different word placement in sentence, use specific words(eg, English word "the"), and also Google Translations algorithms are well known for messing translations of words that have different meaning depending on whole sentence and situation its presented.
                              I actually found out that Bing Translator from Microsoft is a bit better at translating longer sentences than Google translator. For most of time when I translate something using Googe Translator I need to choose different word from list because it mess up even simpler sentences.

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                                • AnonD-351867
                                • IiB
                                • 03 Mar 2017

                                .Mr.Dot, 03 Mar 2017how about the person you are chatting with , can they also ... moreLol why will the person that you are trying to text need to use also use a translator when he is text you back. It is not like you gonna translate from English to Spanish then he use a translator to translate his language to French to send it to you. That doesn't make sense 😂. Anyways he can use the translator only if his keyboard can self translate like this version of Gboard.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • qNh
                                  • 03 Mar 2017

                                  Great! Maybe it can improve the quality of the comments section! /optimistic

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                                    • .Mr.Dot
                                    • P@Y
                                    • 03 Mar 2017

                                    how about the person you are chatting with , can they also translate that ?

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                                      • Antti
                                      • pd9
                                      • 03 Mar 2017

                                      What are you doing

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