Google Android Voice Translator - Speech To Speech Translator App To Communicate In 55 Foreign Languages With Ease

This is one of the best Speech to Speech translator apps. It can translate in real time the spoken voice from one language to another. You can also covert the speech to text and text to speech. You can send the translated text and audio file in email to your friends with just a single tap. You can also send translated text in SMS with ease. This Android voice translator app integrates smoothly with various speech tools like "TTS Extended", "SVOX Classic TTS Engine" and "Free Voices".

Talk To Me Classic - Android Voice Translator : This is one of the popular and very useful apps for tourists who want to communicate in different foreign languages when they are travelling in other countries. User interface of this application is simple and user friendly. You can extend the voice quality of the app by buying additional languages for SVOX Classic TTS Engine.

Android Voice Translator Main Screen : When you launch this app for the first time then you would see user license agreement screen. Once you accept the agreement then you would go to the main screen of this speech translator app.

Android Voice Translator Main Screen

There are two ways to enter the text for translation in this app. You can tap the microphone button displayed at the top of the screen. This displays the pop up screen with instruction "Speak now". Once this pop up is displayed then you can just talk whatever you want to translate. Whatever you talk is converted into text and displayed in source text box. In above screenshot this text is "Good morning" and source language is English. The app translates the entered text into destination language you want. In this case it is German.

If your Android phone does not have Speech Recognizer then this feature of the application does not work. Another way to enter the source text for translation is by typing it. You can tap the source text box and just type the sentence that you want to translate using the keyboard of your Android phone.

You can tap the "Translate" button to translate the source text from the one selected language to the other required language. You can tap the "Speaker" icon shown in translated text box and app speak the translated text in given language. In above case it is German and translated text is "Guten Morgen". You must have one of the "text to speech engine" tools, "TTS Extended", "SVOX Classic TTS Engine" or "Free Voices", to make this feature work. This speak feature of the app is really handy when you want to communicate with a person in a foreign language that you can not speak. This can be really time saver for tourists when they are travelling in different countries.

You can tap the Swap button to swap the "From:" and "To:" languages with each other. So in above scenario if  you tap Swap button then "From:" language would become "German" and "To:" language would become "English".

Android Voice Translator Languages : You can change the "From:" or "To:" language by tapping the given drop down control. It would display the pop up screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android  Voice Translator Languages

There are 55 languages to choose from. You would find Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Galician, Greek, Haitian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh and Yiddish.

To use the speech recognition feature in any of the above languages it is necessary that speech recognition engine installed on your Android phone supports that language. Similarly to use text to speech feature in any of the above language you need to have voice database of that language installed on your phone.

Installing Additional Language For Android Voice Translator :  You can press the menu button of your Android phone to display the app menu as shown in screenshot below.

Android Voice Translator Menu

Tap the "More Voices" menu to display the "More Voices"screen. Here you can listen to sample of additional voice data for additional languages and buy it. Tap the "Sample" button next to the language name that you want to listen. Tap the "Buy" button to buy that voice data. This way you can extend this app to support text to speech translation with additional languages.

Installing Additional Speech Tools For Android Voice Translator : Tap the "Speech Tools" menu to launch the "Speech Tools" screen which is shown in screenshot below.

Android Voice Translator - Speech Tools

Here you can see which of the speech tools are already installed on your Android phone. You can install additional speech tools by tapping the "Install" or "Reinstall" button. You can tap the "Edit" button on this screen for navigating to the settings screen of  "TTS Extended" speech tool. On "TTS Extended" speech tool's settings screen, just make sure that "Always use my settings" check box is checked OFF. This is required for working this app as expected.

Sending Translated Emails With Android Voice Translator : After you translate the required text then tap the "Send as E-mail" menu to compose the email with translated text. It would display the email compose screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Voice Translator - Send Email

The translated text is automatically inserted in message section of the email and voice file is attached to email. The default subject line is set to "Talk To Me Message" but you can edit it and change as you want. You can then enter the email id in "To" field and send the email with translated text. It is this easy to send emails in any foreign language now with this handy Android translator app.

Sending Translated SMS With Android Voice Translator : After you translate the required text then tap the "Send as SMS" menu to compose the SMS with translated text. It would display the SMS interface screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Voice Translator - Send SMS

Here again translated text is automatically inserted in SMS message field. You can enter the recipient phone numbers in "To" field and send the SMS in any of the 55 foreign languages.

One more way to use the translated text is, when you tap the translated text in this app then text is copied to the clipboard. You can paste this copied text to any text editor on your Android phone.

You can download and install this app from Android Market or Android App Store of your choice. If you liked this app then you may like to read about few more great Android apps here. Bookmark and keep coming back to read about more such wonderful, coolest and best apps for Android.

Android Call Recorder and Blocker - With Caller Announce, Auto Answer, Handsfree, Volume and Proximity Controls

There are many Android call recorder apps, call blocker apps, SMS blocker apps and call management apps in Android market. But there are few which has all this functionality combined in a single app. This is one of the great Android call manager with all features from different Android apps into one app. It has call recording, call blocking, caller announcement, auto call answer, auto handsfree, auto volume control, and   proximity control.

Sanity : This is one of the Android call managers with lots of features packed in one single Android app.  With this Android call recorder app, you can record your calls - incoming as well as outgoing, with just tap of a button. You can block unwanted calls or keep your phone silent on unwanted call with this Android call blocker app. You can set it to auto answer incoming calls when you are driving. You can make it switch to handsfree automatically when phone is away from your ear. Isn't those nice features? That is not all, there are more wonderful features which you would love to have. It is truly your personal assistant during phone calls. Best part is, it is free and free version comes with all features it has.

When you launch this Android call manager first time then you would see couple of message screens and once you address that then you would come to a home screen with long list of choices.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - Home

There are so many features in this Android call block app and I am covering here only important few. General menu in screenshot above allows you to switch ON / OFF sanity. What it is means is, it will start monitoring the things which it promises and would behave as per other settings. If it is set to OFF then it would not monitor anything at all. So first thing to use this app is, go to General Screen and set check box "Enable Sanity" ON. Some other useful features at General screen are SMS alert, Silent mode Timeout and Airplane mode Timeout. Making SMS alert option ON means it would display each incoming SMS so that you can reply to it immediately. Regarding options "Silent mode Timeout" and "Airplane mode Timeout", when set ON, it will ask you for how much duration to stay in silent / airport mode.

From home screen you have a separate screens for Recorder, Call blocker, Announce Caller, Urgent Calls and Auto Answer settings. When you scroll down then you will see more features on home screen.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - More Home

As you can see, each option on home screen takes to separate screen for settings of Anonymous calls, Handsfree, Devices, Proximity, Volume, Vibration and Notifications. You can find last one when you scroll down further. Anonymous calls settings allows you to make anonymous outgoing calls where you can hide your caller ID and make private calls.

Devices settings allows you to automatically turn on/off wifi, bluetooth, GPS and mobile data (2G/3G) when you speak over a phone. This reduces electromagnetic waves when you are holding phone close to your ear.

Volume settings allows you to set different volume levels for call, handsfree, wired headsets and bluetooth headsets.

When you tap Recorder menu item from home screen then it launch recorder settings screen with various settings to choose from.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - Recorder Settings

The first setting on this screen "Enable recorder" if set ON, it would display the notification during phone call and you can tap that notification to start the recording of that call. "Browse recorded files" menu displays the previously recorded phone calls and allows you to play or manage those recorded calls. "Audio format" option allows you to choose from MPEG4, 3GPP and AMR format in which recorded calls are saved. On this settings screen you can also set auto recording start and stop rules so that recording can be started automatically when call starts and stops automatically when call ends.

Now let's see settings available for call block. You can launch call blocker screen by tapping "Call blocker" from home screen.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - Call Blocker Settings

Checking "Enable call blocker" check box to ON, sets this feature in action. Using "Call filter" settings you can decide which calls should be blocked and when. You can choose to block unknown, anonymous, contacts, groups or favorite numbers. You can choose to include or exclude given phone number from call block.  Using "Block method", you can choose from various blocking methods like Hang up, Interrupt the signal, Silent answer and Silent ringtone. When you scroll down this settings screen then you would find similar settings to block the SMS messages.

Using this Android call manager you can decide which calls are very urgent for you and you can decide to take those even then phone is silent. You can do required settings for this by tapping "Urgent calls" menu from home screen of this Android call blocker app.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - Urgent Call Settings

Checking ON the "Enable urgent calls" check box sets this function in action. Using "Urgent mode" menu, you can choose from "Ringtone only", "Vibrate only" and "Ringtone and vibrate" options. Using "Call filter" menu, you can decide which are your urgent calls for which this action should be applied.

Now let's see auto answer settings. You can tap the "Auto answer" menu from home screen of this app to launch the settings screen where you can decide various auto answer options.

Android Call Recorder & Blocker - Auto Answer Settings

Checking "Enable auto answer" check box, activates this functionality. Here you can decide when you want to auto answer the incoming calls. You can decide not to auto answer when phone is in silent mode. Using "Call filter" you can choose to auto answer only specific incoming calls.

You can use Auto Answer and Handsfree features in combination to take the calls while driving. This way calls can be auto answered and speaker phone will be automatically switched on for incoming call. This is  one of the handy features.

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You can download this wonderful Android app from market of your choice and start managing your calls and SMS better. If you like this app then you may would like to check few more interesting and cool Android apps from popular sections at the right. Do check back again for more exciting and best apps for Android.

Android SMS App - With SMS Backup, Search, Quick Text, Widget, Scheduler and Batch Operations

This is one of the best and free Android-SMS app in market which has many wonderful features to serve your each need. You name it and most probably you would find that feature in this app. With this Android SMS app, you can send exciting SMS with smileys, pictures, quick texts, videos and much more. It allows you to quickly take the SMS backup on your SD card and you can restore the backup when required. You can schedule when to send SMS. You can search SMS with specific text. Best part is, it comes with nice widget.

A fastest SMS app - Pansi SMS : As the name suggest, it is really one of the fastest Android SMS app I have seen. There are many useful features in this Android SMS manager which we are going to explore soon. One of the interesting and useful features of this Android app is SMS popup. With this app installed on your Android phone, receiving and sending SMS would be fun. When you launch this app first time, it guides you with very simple and easy to use setup wizard.

Android-SMS - Setup Wizard

There are four steps in this setup wizard and it is very easy to follow. But I want to mention here one important point from fourth step, notification settings. Here you can disable other message notifications in message bar. This will ensure that you do not see multiple notifications in message bar for received SMS. After completing the setup wizard you would see the SMS conversations list.

Android-SMS - Message Conversations List

You can see the SMS message list given in screenshot above. When you swipe this view horizontally then this view changes to message box view. Swiping message box view horizontally takes you back to message conversation view. When you tap the icon at top right hand corner of this screen then it opens up a search box. You can type the required search text in that box and search for a SMS you are looking for. When you tap the icon at top left corner of the screen then it launches a screen for composing a new SMS.

Android-SMS - Quick Text

Above screenshot shows the compose new SMS screen. You can tap the icon at top right corner to select the contacts to whom you want to send SMS from your Android phone. When you tap the icon at left of the message box then it shows / hide tab view with various wonderful features shown above. One of the important  features to note here is "Insert quick text". Using this feature you can send predefined SMS messages quickly.

Android-SMS - General Menus

From SMS message list screen, when you press menu button of your Android phone then it displays the General Menus. Using the features available in general menus you can send scheduled SMS. You can quickly see unread, undelivered and draft SMS. You can switch to batch mode to delete multiple SMS quickly. "Message box" menu change the view from list to message box. Tap the "Settings" tab to see other interesting menus.

Android-SMS - Settings Menus

When you tap the "Settings" menu from above shown tab then it launches settings screen with lots of choices to fine tune the behaviors and look & feel of your Android-SMS app. "Notification" menu allows to change settings related to SMS notification. There is one more notification settings screen which you can launch from  advanced settings option. You can change the android sms notification sound using this settings. If you want to download android sms tones then read the post : Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers.  "Theme" menu allows to change the theme of Android-SMS app. "Quick text" menu helps to manage the quick text that you want to add in your SMS messages quickly. Tap "Tools" tab to see the tools menus as shown in screenshot below.

Android-SMS - Tools Menus

Here you can take the SMS backup by tapping "SMS backup and recovery" menu. Android SMS backup feature of this app is one of the fastest. You can use the same menu to restore SMS from previously taken backup.

This app comes with very elegant Android SMS widget which you can put on home screen of your phone. The screenshot of the widget is shown in screenshot below.

Android-SMS - Android SMS Widget

Tap left most icon on toolbar at the bottom of the widget to start composing new SMS message. Tap left or right arrow icon to see previous or next message. Tap the right most icon to change the settings of this Android SMS widget.

You can download this app from market of your choice and start enjoying it. If you like this post then you may like to check few more posts from popular app sections at the right. Keep coming back for more such free, coolest, exciting and best apps for Android.

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