With the aid of a quick picture, you can use your phone's camera to translate pretty much any text while you're traveling across the globe.

You don’t need any other apps or websites to translate text on your phone. Image: Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons/D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can instantly translate text anywhere on your iPhone ...

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Android: When you need any text on your Android translated, Inapp Translator does the job without making you move away from the current app. In a floating window, you will get all the information you ...

On a trip and can’t figure out what the signs say? Microsoft hopes to change that, and has updated its Translator app for Android to now be able to translate text in photos. Photos can either be taken ...

Translator Local Feature works on the most recent version of the Microsoft Translator Android App. It allows developers to add translation capabilities to their apps utilizing the Translator app ...

Translation services from Google, Bing and others mean it's now very easy to translate plain text, and there are a host of apps and browser extensions available to simplify the process further.

Decades ago, Star Trek introduced the idea of a “universal translator,” a small baton that let crew members converse with aliens in their native languages simply by flipping a switch. And now we’re ...