Because of lack of time, patience, or disinterest, few people take full advantage of their cell phones. Most only use them to receive calls, messages, and emails, and to immerse themselves in the hypnotic environments of social media, YouTube, and other forms of entertainment.

However, they little realize that their cell phone could save their lives, serve as a translator when visiting countries whose language they don’t speak, and even as a secretaire, converting what we dictate into text, thus saving a lot of time.

Translation for any language.

Translators are among the tools we use most when we travel, but it can be tedious if we have to write long or complicated words or phrases in another language. Using the Google Lens app, integrated into the Google search engine (there’s a camera icon next to the search bar, or you can download the app), everything will be much simpler.

After we select this function, if we point our camera at the text we want to translate, it will display it in Spanish or the language we have defined. You can also “read” it so we know how to pronounce the text in that language, or copy it to use in other apps like Google Maps or WhatsApp.

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