WhatsApp is finalizing an integrated translator that will be one of its biggest new features in recent months.
With over 2 billion active users, WhatsApp has users in every corner of the world and in every language. Soon, all these users will be able to understand each other even if they don’t speak the same language, with the implementation of automatic message translation . Now we have more details on how it will work.
There have already been several attempts to bring translation to WhatsApp and other messaging apps . Google and Samsung , but WhatsApp is preparing its own native translation that has the advantage of working independently of the mobile phone we have and without sending our chats to a third-party translation service.
This is what WhatsApp translations will look like
Meta has been preparing for some time what will be one of its biggest innovations in recent times: automatic and proprietary translation , without depending on extra functions of the operating system or the Android layer. Thanks to this translation, our world will open up so that we can chat with people who do not speak our language or follow channels in other languages.
As we saw a few months ago, WhatsApp will suggest that we translate chats that arrive in other languages , for which we will have to download the corresponding language pack . This has the advantage that the translation is carried out on the mobile itself, without retransmitting our private messages to any third-party service.
What we hadn’t seen until now were the additional options for said translation, which will appear in the information window of that conversation. Here we will see a new section called Translation Options , of which we now have screenshots courtesy of WaBetaInfo.
Here we can choose which language is translated to which language , which will help avoid erroneous detections of the original language. Also included here is the switch to automatically translate all messages that we receive, or not.
Right here, WhatsApp reminds us that these translations are designed to help us understand what is being said to us, but that they are not always going to be accurate . We will have to test them to see how they work, and unfortunately we still don’t know when this important new feature will be available to users.