it often happens that when you visit a foreign country that has a different spoken or written language it becomes a task to communicate with others regarding directions and navigation showing the place in the app in english doesnt always work and you wish you were able to communicate in their native language so they can understand and tell you the way now its possible the search giant is making it easy to use the maps app in foreign countries by integrating google translator in itas explained by laszlo de brissac product manager at google maps in a blog post the feature lets your phone to speak out the name of the place and the address in the language it can be done easily simply tap the new speaker button next to the place name or address and google maps will say it out loud making your next trip that much simpler and when you want to have a deeper conversation google maps will quickly link you to the google translate app states brissacit has been added that the google translator inside the google maps app uses texttospeech technology that autodetects the language used by the smartphone based on the places where you might need help for instance if your phone is set to english and youre looking at a place of interest in tokyo youll see the new speaker icon next to the places name and address so you can get a realtime translation explains brissacthis new feature will be coming to the google maps app on both android and ios devices within this month as a part of the update the search giant will be rolling out support for 50 languages initially with others arriving later