When Samsung introduced the Galaxy S24 smartphone familyone of its most important innovations was Galaxy AI, a platform for artificial intelligence functions who debuted with him Galaxy S24 Ultrahe Galaxy S24+ and the Galaxy S24but over the months they have also reached more devices, such as the Galaxy S23, Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy S22, among others.
One of the most interesting and useful features of Galaxy AI is real-time call translation, which as its name suggests, allows translate a phone call in development, to be able to easily communicate with people who speak another language through a call. Currently that feature is only available for the Samsung Phone app, but this is changing.
Call translation will reach more Android apps, one of them could be WhatsApp
How real-time call translation works is awesome: On a call, artificial intelligence will immediately translate what the person we are talking to says, which we can see as text on the screen or hear the translation. Our interlocutor will hear what we say in their language with the voice that we have configured on our mobile.
Besides, It is not necessary for the other person to have a Samsung Galaxy mobile to be able to listen to the translation and communicate with us.
This is a function that can be very useful for communicating in other languages, whether for a trip, for work, or for whatever reason. Now, Won-joon Choi, executive vice president and head of Mobile R&D at Samsung, says that This tool will reach more applications. According to the executive, it’s a statement:
Samsung will expand the power of Galaxy AI beyond Samsung’s native calling app by expanding Simultaneous Translation to other third-party messaging apps to support voice calling. So you can stay in touch with friends or colleagues, communicating through your favorite apps in multiple languages.
For now it is not clear which applications will receive these functions, but it is not risky to think that they will reach the most popular and used apps in the world to communicate: WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram, Google Meet and Line These are some examples of apps that should receive this feature sooner rather than later, which will allow us to easily communicate with other people directly in the app of our choice and not just through a traditional phone call.
Choi also talks about bringing Galaxy AI tools and all these artificial intelligence functions to more of the company’s devices. Specifically, he claims that Samsung is working on optimize Galaxy AI experience for upcoming foldable devices of the company, that is, for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, whose launch is expected to happen between the months of July and August. It is unknown exactly what type of optimization these devices will have, since Galaxy AI is already available in the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4so we will have to wait to find out.
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