The new update completely ruined it. Before, the real time conversation worked excellent. Now, it hardly ever works, and it won't immediately speak the results. I have to push a button to get it to speak (if it will even pick it up), even though I've checked in my settings and I have it set to "immediately speak results". Please change it back!!

I have used Google Translate for many years and some of the recent changes have frustrated me immensely. I use this primarily for Chinese language and often use the camera feature. Lately, it seems the app will not faithfully transcribe what is displayed, but will change the characters displayed. I can’t trust that the AI hasn’t decided to substitute what is displayed with something different and perhaps has changed the meaning, by even a slight, but significant amount. A faithful transcription will allow me to puzzle out what the meaning may by allowing me to review the characters displayed, not the characters that have been substituted. Also, with the same feature, I used to be able to view the characters in the photo and choose which characters to translate, but now, I can only choose the translated segments. If there is a way to view an untranslated version, other than sending it to the home page (with the already unreliable transcription of what is displayed), I haven’t figured it out.

The new update completely ruined it. Before, the real time conversation worked excellent. Now, it hardly ever works, and it won't immediately speak the results. I have to push a button to get it to speak (if it will even pick it up), even though I've checked in my settings and I have it set to "immediately speak results". Please change it back!!