Google Translate: Reporter David Sarno has something to say

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Times staff writer Zohreen Adamjee interviews business reporter David Sarno about Google Translate, a free application that works on phones running Google’s Android operating system. Google Translate can translate text to and from more than 50 languages -- including Icelandic, Slovenian and Swahili. Click on the arrow below to hear David discuss Google’s strategy and the potential implications the device will have for consumers.

Here’s a link to his original story and a video in which Sarno and reporter Tiffany Hsu try out the translation application: ‘Need a translation? Google awaits your call,’