Google Translate

shaifullah (49)in #google-translate • 6 years ago

DETAILS

Launched in April 2006 as a statistical machine translation service, it used United Nations and European Parliament transcripts to gather linguistic data. Rather than translating languages directly, it first translates text to English and then to the target language. During a translation, it looks for patterns in millions of documents to help decide on the best translation. Its accuracy has been criticized and ridiculed on several occasions. In November 2016, Google announced that Google Translate would switch to a neural machine translation engine - Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) - which translates "whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece. It uses this broader context to help it figure out the most relevant translation, which it then rearranges and adjusts to be more like a human speaking with proper grammar". Originally only enabled for a few languages in 2016, GNMT is gradually being used for more languages.

COMPONENTS

Google Translate is available in some web browsers as an optional downloadable extension that can run the translation engine. In February 2010, Google Translate was integrated into the Google Chrome browser by default, for optional automatic webpage translation.

BENEFITS

First of all, let’s look at the benefits of using such online translation tool as Google Translate.

It’s convenient. All you have to do is just paste your text to get its immediate translation. There’s no need for communicating with people and discuss terms of cooperation.
It’s fast. It takes seconds to receive a ready translation of your source text.
It’s free. You don’t have to pay anyone for the translation services.
It recognizes almost any language. It’s very difficult to find a human translator who knows all the languages in the world.