JioPhone and other KaiOS smartphones get Google Lens to translate text. On the KaiOS smartphone operating system ( OS). Which is used in JioPhone, Google Lens, the camera-based translation solution from the Google is now available. Generally allowed to Android and iOS users. The software company is expanding its capabilities to millions of Google Assistant customers on KaiOS devices.

Brief Feature

Google has added camera-based translation to Google Lens to enable consumers grasp the knowledge they encounter in the JioPhone. Lens allows you to point the camera towards the text that you see and translate it into over 100 languages. In chosen languages lens will also say the terms out loud.

Recently google incorporated KaiOS voice messaging, speech recognition, and support for Indian languages to enable consumers address obstacles to literacy for the very first time, and communicate more instinctively with tech and their smartphones.

The functionality for KaiOS is primarily available in English and many Indian languages. Including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu , Marathi and Tamil, and will probably be available in Kannada and Gujarati. People could just press the big soft key to access and use this function within the Google Assistant.

“From Assistant, they may click on the camera icon to literally point their device to real-world text (such as a product name, street sign, or paper, for instance) and have it read back in their language of choice, translated, or defined,” said Shriya Raghunathan, Google Assistant Product Manager, and Harsh Kharbanda, Google Lens
product manager.

Support From Google

“We’ve even taken these Lens capabilities to Google Go (lightweight search app). So that even those on the most affordable smartphones can use them”. Raghunathan added.

Previous attempts by both RIL, Lyf Mobiles and Google, via Android One, providing inexpensive smartphones were not well embraced on the industry. Although, the scenario is different now with many industry executives on board. In addition,RIL has invested more and more in natural language processing startups like Reverieand Haptik that deliver digital, vernacular-based intelligence solutions.

“This is another phase in our dedication to making language more available to everyone. And we hope that this will allow millions of KaiOS users across the country. To have a more convenient language experiences.”  Said Shriya Raghunathan, Google Assistant Product Manager, and Harsh Kharbanda. Google Lens Product Manager, in a blog article.

Based on the affordable smartphones from Google-Jio. Analysts claim to be able to turn millions of 2 G telecom customers into wireless 4 G consumers. Although, through successful vernacular mobile language incorporation.