Others include machine translation and a linguistic services business, which horrors employs real people to do the translating.
GlobalTV uses machine translation of the closed captioning text to produce subtitles in Spanish, French, German, English, Portuguese or Italian.
Here's how Franz Och, a distinguished research scientist at Google, sees the present state and future of machine translation online.
One mistake that the early researchers made was to imagine that nothing less than flawless, fully automated machine translation would suffice.
But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.
With more realistic expectations, machine translation is, at last, beginning to thrive.
Once a machine translation system has been tuned appropriately, it can produce far more accurate results if the input text is more consistent.
In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation.
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We're going to have to enjoy their review for now via Google's translation service, which means that we may have missed some of the finer points that were garbled by machine translation.
The biggest difference, says Dimitrios Sabatakakis, chief executive of Systran, is that the Internet makes it much easier to create a customised version of a machine-translation system.
Just as the construction of America's highways meant that Goodyear sold many more tyres, he hopes the Internet will have a similar effect on the machine-translation business.
Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.
One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.
Equipped with proprietary machine-learned automated translation technology, the browser considerably expands the browsing territory for those who speak only one language.
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It charges you based on whether or not you select machine, human or community translation.
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