WhatsApp’s Reported Auto-Translation Feature Might Not Use Google Tech
In its newest update, the WhatsApp function tracker WABetaInfo claimed that the function nonetheless depends on WhatsApp’s in-house know-how and doesn’t leverage any third-party tech to assist it. This implies that all the processing of the function will happen on-device and the messages will stay end-to-end encrypted.
The function tracker additionally shared a brand new screenshot of the function, giving a greater thought of the way it may work. The screenshot was discovered inside the newest WhatsApp for Android beta model 2.24.15.12. In the screenshot, the function is titled “Translate your message”. WhatsApp additionally highlights, “Your texts are end-to-end encrypted. No one, together with WhatsApp, can learn them.”
WhatsApp Translation Feature
Photo Credit: WABetaInfo
Based on the screenshots, customers will first must activate a toggle to translate all messages in a chat. Then, they must select the language to be translated and the output language. After that, WhatsApp will ask the person to obtain a language pack. Once downloaded, all of the messages within the chat might be routinely translated. Every translated message may also carry a “translated” label on the backside of the bubble.
The function tracker claims that the preliminary assist is restricted to languages akin to English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian. However, it’s probably that WhatsApp will add assist for extra languages sooner or later. The function reportedly appeared within the WhatsApp for Android app model 2.24.15.8 for the primary time. Gadgets 360 workers members had been unable to confirm the existence of the function or its workings.
