By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 4, 2016
This Google blog post explains how they put “deep learning” on Android phones. A short blurb:
“Today we announced that the Google Translate app now does real-time visual translation of 20 more languages. So the next time you’re in Prague and can’t read a menu, we’ve got your back. But how are we able to recognize these new languages? In short: deep neural nets.”