Four Google executives may be using Google Translate to brush up on Italian legalisms this month.
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The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.
Google Translate is a free Google service that translates between scores of languages almost as quickly as Google returns search results.
The availability of online translation services such as Google Translate has not put a dent in the demand for human services.
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Google Translate has been free for Android and iPhone since February 2011.
Like many people, I use Google Translate as a starting point for translation, but don't necessarily trust that it will get everything right.
Apparently, using Google Translate as an initial basis for producing a bilingual record of plenary meetings is proving "slightly more expensive" than the Assembly expected.
Improvements to Google Translate are being made on a regular basis.
In other words, Google Translate readers in the year 2020 will be able to find clunkers and non sequiturs almost as easily as they can today.
By detecting patterns in documents that have already been translated by human translators, Google Translate can make intelligent guesses as to what an appropriate translation should be.
But the real gem comes from Google Translate, which is already cornering the market with their online version, and is currently translating between 52 languages and multiple alphabets.
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Spend more time with the software, though, and you realize while Google Translate is often spot-on perfect, especially with simple sentences from structurally simple languages like Spanish, it can produce puzzling sentences.
Which is quite an admission, because Och is responsible for one of the most amazing computer programs in the world: He is head of the division at Google that runs Google Translate.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
The addition should work well with an update to Google Translate earlier this year that added parallel patent texts from the aforementioned European agency to allow for translations between English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Swedish.
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In the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history, a journey from the days when the Greeks simply ignored other languages and the Romans forced all subject peoples to learn Latin, to Google Translate.
Special thanks to Google Translate!
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As Lady Fate would have it, the company apparently outed a memo of the features on its French blog earlier today, but before it could yank the 'pull' switch, an eagle-eyed reader managed to grab the text and run it through -- surprise, surprise -- Google Translate.
The lost and confused are shown navigating their way through New York streets, the Golden Gate bridge, an airport and a ski hill to highlight Google's latest Maps and Now goodies, while a tourist all-too-happy with his Thai meal learns the word for delicious in that language using Google Translate.
Well, the Western Mail has certainly put the cat among the pigeons (or 'rhoi'r gath ymysg y colomenod' as Google might translate it) this morning with its editorial which calls a proposal to have a full bilingual record of all Assembly proceedings - including committee hearings - "astounding".
Anyone can open a Chinese article using Google (GOOG) Translate or in their Chrome browser and read the translation of my article.
And already, in its infancy, Google Glass gives you a way to take first-person HD video unobtrusively, use those Google Maps safely while driving and translate words into Chinese instantly.
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The sketchy reCAPTCHAs you often see are merely poor scans that Google presents so that people can collectively translate the words.
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Google Chief Eric Schmidt demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that lets users translate written words using a camera phone.
Google Currents, which delivers magazine content to mobile users, now has auto translate so magazine content can be automatically translated into other languages.
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