Tap a place to show it full screen. Grab also lets you type these in English.
Add a place
Emergency numbers
Starting the camera...
Point at a menu, board, sign or bill
Read a menu, sign or bill
The camera isn't on. Allow the camera for this app, or take a photo instead.
Needs internet. Reads small, faded and handwritten writing, explains it, and turns prices into Aussie dollars.
Ask about it
Earlier
Live talk
Hold the phone up between you. Needs internet.
Money
$0.00
Numbers
Listening
English or Vietnamese, in any order. Wait for the phone to finish speaking before the next line. Needs internet.
Listening
Help and settings
Put it on your home screen: in Chrome tap the three dots (top right), then Add to Home screen or Install app.
Needs internet: Live talk and Read (the camera reader). Works with no internet: phrase cards and their sound, Places, numbers and the money converter.
Headphones: with headphones in, everything the phone says goes into your ears, including the Vietnamese (a web app can't send one language to the earbuds and the other to the speaker). Turn the screen to them so they can read it, or take one earbud out.
Hands-free: press it once and put the phone between you. It works out who is speaking English or Vietnamese, translates each line and says it out loud. It keeps listening until you press Stop. Wait for the phone to finish speaking before the next line, and talk one at a time.
Data used this trip
Roughly: a photo read uses about 1.5 MB, a minute of hands-free talk about 1 MB, a typed or tapped line almost nothing. Phrase cards, places and money use none. The phone's own voice typing (Me and the red button) goes to Google and isn't counted here.
Photos and recordings are read once and not kept. Translations are by free AI, so check anything important (prices, medicine, dental plans) with the person in front of you.