Google bundled translation into a service for exporters. The ads were the cheap part to translate; the checkout, the support and the keyword research are where campaigns fail.
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Google is redesigning Translate for discoverability, not accuracy, and adding a page that explains how statistical machine translation actually works.
Google added Latin to Google Translate, announced it in a blog post written entirely in Latin, and predicted the results would be among its most accurate.
Google Conversation Mode turns Android phones into speech translators, but background noise, accents and fast talk still expose the limits of machine interpreting.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.
Google prototype Conversation Mode records speech on Android and plays it back in another language, promising travellers real time translation that still depends on battery and signal.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
Camera translation, offline packs and voice mode have removed the everyday friction of a foreign city, but they still cannot sign a consent form.
Google built a system to translate poetry with metre and rhyme intact. The experiment exposed exactly where machine translation stops being translation.
Google Translate and other translation tools are powerful tools that can help people communicate across languages and cultures
Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.
Google translated 16 million words into Hindi, Tamil, Swahili and more for Wikipedia using Google Trends to pick articles and humans to fix the machine drafts.