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Not sure if it's the lighting or the text I'm trying, but it does have a tendency to make words dance around insanely. The execution could be improved upon a bit.
I can certainly see a lot of potential for this. Let me know when it's embedded in my augmented reality eyeglasses!
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You should register wordlensapp.com or something of the like. I'm not sure hosting nothing but the app promotion on a site with a completely different URL is beneficial. With such a product, you should perhaps brand yourself more on your product than your company name. :) Just throwing it out there.
Since you mentioned this, I registered wordlens.co and set it to redirect to their website. I emailed the info and asked them if they want it. That's how awesome I think this app is - I'd rather spend my own money to make sure they get a good domain. otaviogood or johndeweese, if you're reading this, my email is in my profile.
for the sake of being contrarian, why all the freaking out? it's cool and all, but it's OCR + translation, two things computers are already pretty good at (not to mention word lens seems to be doing word-for-word translation, not context-sensitive). yeah doing it so fast on a mobile device is impressive, but am I alone in thinking this isn't going to change the world?
If I could point my macbook at something and get the same thing, then I might be a bit fascinated...the fact that I can do this with something that fits in my pocket is what is so amazing.
I just went to the local bar with my roomate and, despite it being pretty busy, I told one of the bartenders "Hey, want to see something cool?" and pointed my phone at their menu. Now, almost immediately after I said this, I realized it was kindof rude (they were busy), but she looked anyway...then she proceeded to yell at all the other bartenders to come over and check it out...and the guy sitting next to me spent about a minute going over the menu (translating from english to spanish) wowed as well.
You're not going to get that with angry birds.
Awesome.
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Because "dead end" means "callejon sin salida". That's the correct translation (callejon = road, sin salida = w/out exit). On the other hand, "muerto fin" has NO meaning in spanish, (and that's what you get when you translate word for word without context).
Thank you. I think context is extremely important and very difficult to get right. I remember reading one article by Google engineer where they discuss how they keep improving their analysis of search queries. E.g. [Search Term] -> [Interpretation] New York -> New York city New York Times -> The news paper New York Times Square -> Famous tourist spot in NYC. There were other examples in the article. I will try to fin…
Yep... solving "context" 100% is equivalent to solving A.I.!
Wow. Just Wow. I had to put the App to test. Printed some simple English words and tried it out. Original paper: http://imgur.com/EYsko What the App shows in REALTIME: http://imgur.com/FhaSW Comparison with Google Translate: http://imgur.com/GOd94.jpg [EDIT: Note, Translating Muerto Fin to English in Google Translate, does result in 'Dead End'. Can any Spanish reader clarify why the original Google Translate chose to…
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It's called marketing and frankly I don't think it takes anything away from the app.
Sure it does. I'd be impressed with this app doing word-for-word translation if that's what I expected. If On the other hand, if the examples uses grammatically incorrect source material to give the impression that it can do more than it can, I feel irritated at being misled, and I'm much less likely to support the product.