When we carry out work related to the world of office automation, we use programs of the popularity of Word or Excel. In the same way we work with text files, PDFs and we use a translator as a complement.
In fact, it is precisely these translators that we want to focus on now, services and programs that have not stopped growing in recent years. And it is that these platforms and applications to which we refer can be very helpful, whether we use them locally or online. There are users who prefer to install a program specially designed to perform these translations , while others opt for Internet platforms. Perhaps one of the best known services of this type around the world is the one presented by the giant Google .
But it is not the only one, despite being the best known. In fact, here we will talk about a translator program that you may not even know exists and that we have on our own computer. Specifically, we refer to the Translator app that includes Windows 10 itself and that we have at hand at all times.
To access this application, we can search for it in the Start menu, or write its name, Translator, in the system search box. Then we can run it and see some of the functions it proposes and that will surely be very interesting for us.
Integration with the assistant Cortana
As we can see as soon as we start the translation program in Windows 10, it informs us that it integrates perfectly with the Cortana assistant . This will allow us both to open it and use it in a more comfortable and at the same time simple way, whenever we need it. Also, if we are regulars of the integrated assistant, the use of this translator will be more fluid than with other alternatives.
Support for use with voice
We can also introduce texts out loud through the microphone that we have installed in the equipment. As you can imagine, this can save us a good amount of time, since it saves us having to use the computer keyboard.
Reading and translating texts from a photo
One of the functions that are probably going to be the most striking is the possibility of extracting texts from an image . For this we only have to upload the photographic file to the program as such from the Image section. Then it is responsible for identifying the characters contained in it to later translate them into the language that we have specified by default.
Multitude of supported languages
And to finish we will tell you that as with the aforementioned Google application, this translator also allows the use of multiple languages . Thus we have the possibility to work and add other languages with which at a certain moment, we need to work from here.
Freehand writing
On the other hand, it is worth knowing that this Windows translator also allows freehand text entry. Therefore, if we have a computer with a touch screen, for example, we can enter texts with a pencil so that the program recognizes and translates it instantly.