- WhatsApp’s upcoming auto-translate tool could have the ability to detect languages in a chat automatically.
- It might require users to download an additional Automatic language detection pack measuring 24MB.
- The messenger is also working on a new feature to let users add social media profile links to their WhatsApp profiles.
WhatsApp has been working on a handy tool to help users easily chat with foreigners for quite some time now. We first caught a glimpse of the in-development translation tool last July. At the time, it was speculated that WhatsApp would rely on Google’s Live Translate tech to translate chats, but a subsequent report revealed that the messaging app was instead developing an in-house solution and gave us a good idea of how it may work upon release.
Pre-release screenshots of the feature suggested that WhatsApp would prompt users to select a language and then download the corresponding language pack to translate messages in a chat. However, a new report indicates that the final version of the tool may not require users to select a language manually.