Google Translate
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Google Translate homepage
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Type of site
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Machine translation |
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| Available in | 103 languages, see supported languages |
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| Website | translate |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | Over 200+ million people daily |
| Launched | April 28, 2006 (as statistical machine translation) November 15, 2016 (as neural machine translation) |
| Current status | Active |
Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video from one language into another. It offers a web interface, mobile apps for Android and iOS, and an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. Google Translate supports over 100 languages at various levels and as of May 2013, serves over 200 million people daily.
In November 2016, Google announced that Google Translate would switch to a neural machine translation engine - Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) - which translates "whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece. It uses this broader context to help it figure out the most relevant translation, which it then rearranges and adjusts to be more like a human speaking with proper grammar". GNMT was first enabled for eight languages: to and from English and Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Google Translate can translate multiple forms of text and media, including text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video, from one language to another.
It supports over 100 languages at various levels and as of May 2013, serves over 200 million people daily.
For some languages, Google Translate can pronounce translated text, highlight corresponding words and phrases in the source and target text, and act as a simple dictionary for single-word input. If "Detect language" is selected, text in an unknown language can be automatically identified.
If a user enters a URL in the source text, Google Translate will produce a hyperlink to a machine translation of the website.
For some languages, text can be entered via an on-screen keyboard, handwriting recognition, or speech recognition.
Google Translate is available in some browsers as an extension which can run the translation engine.
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