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The app uses system dictation to recognize your spoken input. More important than that, iTranslate takes full advantage of the fact that native apps can now play and record audio directly on your Apple Watch.Īs a result, iTranslate’s built-in voice recognition technology can now instantly translate words, phrases and text and play back translations through the Apple Watch speaker, no need to pull out your iPhone whatsoever. Launching iTranslate takes a surprisingly long time to load, between five and ten seconds which I don’t think is acceptable for a native app.īut once it’s loaded, the app is very responsive and speedy now, even more so compared to its cumbersome and sluggish watchOS 1 counterpart. The long story short, native apps run directly on the device and talk to its underlying hardware and sensors so most tasks should feel faster and smoother than before.įor instance, apps can now play sounds through the Apple Watch’s speakerphone and take voice input from its built-in mic. To test how this works in the real world, I’ve spent a few hours with iTranslate by Sonico Mobile GmbH, arguably the best translator app you can put on your wrist to overcome language barriers, Star Trek-style.

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Now that the watchOS 2 software update has released to the general public, a healthy debate is developing amongst my techie friends about the benefits that native apps are supposed to enable.