InterContinental Hotels Group’s (IHG) Translator App will be available for Apple Watch, giving travellers access to on-demand translations virtually anywhere in the world.
The app allows users to ‘travel like a local’, whatever their choice of device. By speaking directly into the watch, or selecting from a range of pre-loaded common phrases, travellers will be able to translate from English into 12 different languages, in real-time, meaning the app will cover the nine initial launch countries for Apple Watch. Translations will appear instantly on the screen of the device in the chosen language, giving users the chance to read the word or phrase, with the help of phonetic spelling. Formal, casual and slang settings will also be available. Available languages on the app currently are Castilian Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.