What exactly is Google Translate?
Google Translate is a translation service launched by Google in April 2006. It can translate a wide range of texts and media, including words, phrases, and websites. For translation, the application employs cutting-edge AI algorithms. It converts text, documents, and webpages across languages.
How does Google Translate work?
Google Translate gathered linguistic data from texts and transcripts from the United Nations and the European Parliament. Rather of directly translating languages, it used to translate text to English before pivoting to the target language in the majority of the language combinations it proposes in its grid. Statistical Machine Translation was the name given to this function (SMT). Google Translate was then upgraded to the renowned Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT). It now translates the whole document rather than just parts of it.
Google Translate has several wonderful free features
1. You can converse in both languages. Isn't it wonderful? Doesn't that seem like something from Star Trek? While someone speaks a foreign language, you may simply translate in near real-time.
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2. You may use your finger to create letters or characters and translate them on the fly.
3. Pointing your camera at anything legible in any supported language (at least 133) will result in a translation in seconds.
4. Google Translate, believe it or not, does not need an online connection to translate your work. Text translations are now available without the need for a data connection.
5. If you want a photo translated, take a picture and upload it to Google Translate.
6. In 133 supported languages, you may translate up to 5000 characters in seconds. Enter translate.google.com to access this feature.
7. The whole document may be translated by submitting it to the Google Translate website.
8. It also allows you to translate the whole website. All you have to do is input the URL and Google will do the rest.
9. You may quickly study fundamental vocabulary entries such as nouns, verbs, pronouns, and exclamations with examples.
10. If you want to see more examples, scroll down the page to see sentence examples.
11. You may look through your translation history.
12. You may store the work for later use and return later to find it where you left it. There is no time restriction.
13. If you are a linguist and want to help improve Google Translations, you may click the 'Contribute' button to assist with translating documents or algorithms.
14. The service is available as a webpage, browser extension and a mobile app. Google Translate API is also available for creators.
If you intend to remain on the search page and still wishes to translate, you can do it by typing google translate in the search bar and not going to the URL translate.google.com.
If you intend to add Google Translate link to your website, click here to know simple steps.
Supported Languages
- Text translation: 133 languages
- Offline: 59 languages
- Instant camera translation: 94 languages
- Photos: 90 languages
- Conversations: 71 languages
- Handwriting: 98 languages
- Phrasebook: all languages
