Google Translate is a free multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and an application programming interface that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. As of December 2020, Google Translate supports 109 languages at various levels and as of April 2016, claimed over 500 million total users. Its accuracy, which has been criticized and ridiculed on several occasions, has been measured to vary greatly across languages.
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Google Translate is a free multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and an application programming interface that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. As of December 2020, Google Translate supports 109 languages at various levels and as of April 2016, claimed over 500 million total users, with more than 100 billion words translated daily. Its accuracy, which has been criticized and ridiculed on several occasions, has been measured to vary greatly across languages. It uses deep learning techniques to translate whole sentences at a time, which it has measured to be more accurate between English and French, German, Spanish, and Chinese. In May 2014, Google acquired Word Lens to improve the quality of visual and voice translation. It is able to scan text or a picture with one’s device and have it translated instantly. In January 2010, Google has introduced an Android app and iOS version in February 2011 to serve as a portable personal interpreter. In February 2010, it was integrated into browsers such as Chrome and was able to pronounce the text, automatically recognize words in the picture and spot unfamiliar text and languages. For most of its features, it provides the pronunciation, dictionary, and listening to translation. For some languages, it can synthesize speech from text, and in certain pairs it is possible to highlight specific corresponding words and phrases between the source and target text. If a user enters a source text in the web interface, it will produce a hyperlink to a machine translation of the website.
Users can save a translation proposal in some languages for later use for later translation. In all languages, the results are sometimes shown with dictional information below the translation box, but it is not a dictionary and has been shown to invent translations in languages for words for which it does not recognize. If users can suggest alternate translations, such as for technical terms, or correct mistakes, these suggestions may be included in future updates to the service. Google Translated can translate multiple forms of text and media, including text, speech, websites, or text on display in still or live video images. In November 2016, Google transitioned its translating method to a system called neuralMachine Translation. Originally only enabled for a few languages in 2016, GNMT is used in all 109 languages in the Google Trans translate roster as of December 2020, except for the language pair between English and Latin. It can translate text,speech, and text within still or moving images, which includes text, words, phrases and webpages. The service is free to use and is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. It does not have a built-in dictionary or search function. It has a free version of the Translate app for iOS and Android that is available on the Google Play Store. It was launched in April 2006 as a statistical machinetranslation service, but has since been expanded to include a number of other languages and apps such as Google Play and Google Play Music.
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