Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interfacea mobile app for Android and iOSas well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications.
Launched in April as a statistical machine translation service, it used United Nations and European Parliament documents and transcripts to gather linguistic data. Rather than translating languages directly, it first translates text to English and then pivots to the target language in most of the language combinations it posits in Språk och översättning grid, [7] with a few exceptions including Catalan—Spanish.
Its accuracy, which has been criticized on several occasions, [9] has been measured to vary greatly across languages. 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".
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. Despite this, Google initially did not hire experts to resolve this limitation due to the ever-evolving nature of language.
In JanuaryGoogle introduced an Android app and iOS version in February to serve as a portable personal interpreter. In MayGoogle acquired Word Lens to improve the quality of visual and voice translation. Moreover, the system automatically identifies foreign languages and translates speech without requiring individuals to tap the microphone button whenever speech translation is needed.
In NovemberGoogle transitioned its translating method to a system called neural machine translation. As ofit translates more than billion words a day. InGoogle Translate was used during a court hearing when court officials at Teesside Magistrates' Court failed to book an interpreter for the Chinese defendant.
At the end of SeptemberGoogle Translate was discontinued in mainland Chinawhich Google said was due to "low usage". Google Translate can translate multiple forms of text and media, Språk och översättning includes text, speech, and text within still or moving images.
For most of its features, Google Translate provides the pronunciation, dictionary, and listening to translation. Additionally, Google Translate has introduced its own Translate app, so translation is available with a mobile phone in offline mode.
Google Translate produces approximations across languages of multiple forms of text and media, including text, speech, websites, or text on display in still or live video images. Results are sometimes shown with dictional information below the translation box, but it is not a dictionary [28] and has been shown to invent translations in all languages for words it does not recognize.
In the web interface, users can suggest alternate translations, such as for technical terms, or correct mistakes. These suggestions may be included in future updates to the translation process. If a user enters a URL in the source text, Google Translate will produce a hyperlink to a machine translation of the website.
Texts written in the ArabicCyrillicDevanagari and Greek scripts can be transliterated automatically from phonetic equivalents written in the Latin alphabet. The browser version of Google Translate provides the option to show phonetic equivalents of text translated from Japanese to English.