Yelp users traveling overseas may come across language barriers when reading local reviews. But the popular app is now making it easier to experience the platform, with an automatic translator powered by Bing.
Bing Translator will bring 15 languages to the site, including Spanish, French, Italian, English, Swedish and Japanese. When the user clicks on a single review or on a group of reviews written in a different language, a button gives him the option of translating the text to his or her specified language.
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The new feature is only available on the iPhone app for now, but should be launched for Android in the upcoming months.
"The feature is most useful and relevant for travelers on the go," a Yelp spokesperson told Mashable. "We hope to add support for machine translation on desktop at some point, but don’t have a specific timeline."
This is the second big update of the summer for Yelp, which celebrates its 10th birthday this year. In July, the company launched Yelp Trends, a Yelp-hosted site that tracks the increase and decrease of various topics in searches over the past 10 years.