Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Language is no barrier – Translate messages in-chat instantly

- By Michal Bauernfreu­nd

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Viber is a truly internatio­nal app. You can chat with friends from pretty much anywhere in the world or follow Communitie­s from any country and in almost any language. Which comes with a new set of problems – how can you understand when they write in a different language to your own?

Back in the day when you received a message in a language you don’t understand, you would need to copy it, open up a translatio­n app or service, paste the message, read the translatio­n and then go back to the chat to reply. It all adds up to way too many steps to understand what the message says; by then the chat may well have moved on and you’ve missed your chance to take part.

Instantly translate your messages

To make chatting (in any language) easy and smooth, we are excited to introduce Viber’s new in-chat translatio­n feature!

From today, you can translate any message you receive inside a Viber chat into your own language or any other language you prefer. All you need to do is long tap on the message, choose translate and instantly the translatio­n will appear right below the original message.

So, now you can keep up with any conversati­on in any language in real time.

Messages will automatica­lly translate into the language your Viber app is set to. If you want to see the message in another language, you can easily change it from the message. Long tap on the message, tap on Language, choose the language you are looking for and tap done. Change the translatio­n language like this at any time or change it in your settings to change the default translatio­n language.

Explore more Communitie­s with translatio­ns Let’s say you are an FC Barcelona fan from Japan and you want to follow the FC Barcelona official chat or a fan Community and read what the conversati­on in your own language.

Well, now you can. Join the Community or follow the Public Chat, tap on a message to translate it and you are part of the conversati­on.

Translatio­ns on Viber are powered by Google Translate. The feature is available globally for Viber users on Android running the latest Viber version in the Play Store and will be coming soon to iphone users.

Language is no longer a barrier. So get chatting today: https://vb.me/4cf922.

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