Google is developing a smartphone software technology that will translate several foreign languages easily and accurately.

Google claims that the new device would be capable of converting speech into another foreign language, instantly.

For now, Google’s database includes more than 52 of the estimated 6,000 languages, known across the globe.

Though the early iterations of Google’s translation services have been a bit incomprehensible, at times, it now promises to give way to a new database translation system which will work much more accurately.

However, the company officials admit that translating speech would be a tougher job, but they claimed that the smartphone would be capable of adjusting, by learning the user’s speaking style.

“We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time. Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that's what we're working on”, said Franz Och, Google’s Chief of Translation Services.