Google translator
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| Machine translation | |
| languages | 103 |
| operator | Google LLC ( more ) |
| Registration | Google account optional |
| On-line | April 2006 (currently online) |
| https://translate.google.com/ | |
Google translator ( English Google Translate ) is an online service from Google LLC , of words, texts and whole websites translated by machine . The service was introduced in 2006. Initially, it only translated between English and Arabic .
Functions
The Google translator translates words, texts or websites as well as texts recorded with the camera into 103 languages (as of March 2020). The service offers the function of automatically recognizing the source language.
Web browser
In the Google Chrome browser , automatic website translation can be activated by the Google translator. There are browser extensions for Mozilla Firefox that use the Google Translator or are based on it.
mobile devices
An app for the Android operating system has existed since the beginning of 2010 that translates SMS messages and texts spoken on the phone. Google has also published an app in the App Store for the iOS operating system . Google Translate is also built into Google's Now On Tap .
In addition, the mobile apps can be used to translate some languages live in the camera image using "instant translation". In connection with the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 , Google has also added the language pair Arabic and German to the "instant translation".
The experimental Translatotron model was created to translate spoken sentences faster and to reproduce them with a more natural sound. Previously, spoken sentences were recorded and converted into text. The text is translated into the target language using an internal Google language. The results were forwarded to the speech output and read out there. In the Translatoron scheme, spoken words are examined on the audio level and translated without text conversion and reproduced in the target language with retained voice characteristics.
API
Google offers developers a programming interface (API) for a fee to incorporate translations into their own websites and offers.
restrictions
As with machine translation itself, precise translation is not always possible. Some languages are translated better than others. Since the technology is based on a statistical translation method, sometimes strange results arise.
Since the end of 2016, neural networks in some languages have not translated words individually, but in sentences.
Abuse: bypassing internet blocks
If you have entire websites translated, a content filter , which is intended to prevent companies from accessing social networks or pornography , for example , can be bypassed. Since the website to be translated is processed by a Google server and the result is displayed in a frame within the Google service, content can be viewed that would otherwise not be accessible. The filter interprets the connection request as going to Google and accepts it, since Google access is allowed.
Translator community
In mid-2014, Google opened the translator community, a crowdsourcing platform designed to improve the quality of automatic translations. This allows users to correct existing translations and suggest new ones. In April 2016, according to Google, 3.5 million users had made 90 million submissions.
Web links
- Official website
- Translator community
- Teach You Backwards: An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 103 Languages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b languages. Google, accessed March 31, 2020 .
- ^ Franz Och: Statistical machine translation live. In: Google Research Blog. Google, March 28, 2006, accessed February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Search results for "Google Translator" , Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, accessed October 17, 2017
- ↑ Awaneesh Verma: A new look for Google Translate for Android. Google Translate Blog, January 12, 2011, accessed February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Google Translate .
- ↑ googletranslate.blogspot.com: Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone .
- ^ Adi Robertson: Google's Now on Tap is adding near-instant translation to Android. In: The Verge . Vox Media, July 6, 2016, accessed March 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Ryan Whitwam: New Google Translate App Includes Word Lens Image Translation And Smarter Conversation Mode. In: androidpolice.com. January 14, 2015, accessed August 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Jacquelline Fuller: An update on our response to the refugee crisis and migrants. In: Official Google Blog. Google, October 13, 2015, accessed August 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Ye Jia, Ron J. Weiss, Wolfgang Macherey et al .: Direct speech-to-speech translation with a sequence-to-sequence model. Google, April 12, 2019, accessed May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Spring cleaning for some of our APIs , googlecode.blogspot.com
- ↑ Google Translate API v2 ( Memento from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Comparison of online machine translation tool, tcworld.info ( Memento of February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Google Translate Tangles With Computer Learning , forbes.com
- ↑ Google translates "Ivan the Terrible" as "Abraham Lincoln". In: google.blognewschannel.com. September 10, 2007, archived from the original on September 12, 2007 ; accessed on March 23, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Derek Walter: Google Translate is tapping into neural networks for smarter language learning. PCWorld, November 16, 2016, accessed February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Barak Turovsky: Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate. Google, November 15, 2016, accessed February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Google trick removes internet blocking. ITespresso on December 25, 2006, accessed on September 1, 2018.
- ↑ Frederic Lardinois: Google Wants To Improve Its Translations Through Crowdsourcing. In: Techcrunch . Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
- ^ Barak Turovsky: Ten years of Google Translate. In: Google Blog. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .