Jun 27, 2010 Posted by Saijo George in Communication | 23 comments

Anuvadak 1.0 – a great Google translator app with text to speech support

There are many translator apps on windows phone but today I came across a great new app that does just about everything that you can do on the Google Translator website. The app Anuvadak developed by chargedRam from xda-developers. According to the developer Anuvadak stands for Translator in Hindi.

Anuvadak has got a nice UI, when you launch the app you have an option to enable instant translation ( which is an alpha feature , so might throw out some unexpected result ). When this feature is enabled the result is automatically generated and you DON’T have to click on translate. Keep in mind the app uses data and there might be a few seconds delay before the results might come up.

The text area for search is rather small and I was not able to bring up the context menu to copy-paste from this field, hopefully the dev can fix that in future release. Anuvadak offers an easy way to swap the languages and shows the history of all the translations ( when instant translation is not enabled ). Clicking on a translated item brings up some advance options like

• Listen to the translation ( not all languages are supported )
• Copying the translated text to Clipboard
• Send via SMS
• Translate to a different language

Auto-detect which is present in the web version of Google translate is currently not available in Anuvadak, but the dev plans to bring this feature to the mobile version soon. The developer has claimed that Romanization is also supported in beta but for some reason it did not work on the version I tried. One other thing that caught my attention was that some languages are not properly rendered on the some devices (eg. Arabic, hindi, manadarin ,thai.. etc). According to the developer this has to do with the localized ROMs. So if your ROM supports that local language then the app should support it else it will just appear as some square.

Anuvadak Screenshots :

Anuvadak Video :

Tested On : HTC Diamond

Pros :

• Great UI
• Listen to translation

Cons :

• The size of the text field is limited and does not allow users to paste text in to that field

Possible Improvements :

• Auto Detect would be a nice feature ( the dev has plans to include it )

Tags: Anuvadak, chargedRam, Google Translate

23 Responses to “Anuvadak 1.0 – a great Google translator app with text to speech support”

1. Kratos says:

   June 27, 2010 at 3:54 pm

   Nice App, Downloading it now

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2. Jim says:

   June 27, 2010 at 4:02 pm

   Great website, love the reviews. Hope you will continue to reviews on windowsphone7.

   This app is way better than the old G-Translate app for winmo

   Reply
   • Saijo George says:

     June 28, 2010 at 4:53 am

     thanks .. hope to do that

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3. Kate says:

   June 28, 2010 at 5:20 am

   Great app. Plz include remember the last languages used option and also option to email friends

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4. tweetce (Anuvadak developer) says:

   June 28, 2010 at 9:50 am

   Hi kate,

   I will be releasing the new minor version very soon which will enable saving of settings and email to friend.. along with other bug fixes/enhancements

   Reply
   • Kate says:

     June 28, 2010 at 2:10 pm

     thanks . Love the software, its the best translation software on winmo

     Reply
5. Jimmy says:

   June 28, 2010 at 11:10 pm

   Do you plan to add IVONA TTS Voices?

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6. tweetce (Anuvadak Developer) says:

   July 3, 2010 at 12:41 am

   Anuvadak 1.0.1 sneak peek – http://tinyurl.com/2amznq7

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   • Saijo George says:

     July 3, 2010 at 1:53 am

     looks nice, I am guessing the star is for Favorite Language that you can set

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     • tweetce (Anuvadak developer) says:

       July 5, 2010 at 2:31 am

       Yes Saijo it is the favorite language option. More options packing in the next version …

       thanks
     • tweetce (Anuvadak Developer) says:

       July 17, 2010 at 3:13 am

       hey Sajio,

       New Version of Anuvadak 1.1 released

       See it here

       http://areyounear.me/?p=124

       Thanks
       CR
7. tutz says:

   July 3, 2010 at 10:28 pm

   I have already downloaded the file but I don’t see any Application file in there..Do I have to change the file extension..?? of which file??

   Please bear withe me since I’m new to windowa phone..

   Thank you so much.

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   • Saijo George says:

     July 3, 2010 at 10:44 pm

     you have to install the .CAB file on your Windows Phone. Check this video for more info : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=716RlPKAEdw

     Hope that helps

     Reply

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