Google Translate is a service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, or a webpage, into another language, with limits to the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, translated. For some languages, users are asked for alternate translations, such as for technical terms, to be included for future updates to the translation process. Unlike other translation services such as Babel Fish, AOL, Yahoo and MSN, which use SYSTRAN, Google uses their own translation software. This uses an approach called statistical machine translation, trained on United Nations documents. This parallel collection constitutes 20 billion words' worth of human translations. Google's software acquires statistical models from this data that are then used to translate between those languages. The next version is now a live beta for certain translation pairs such as Arabic-English. The service also includes translation of an entire Web page. The translation is limited in number of paragraphs per webpage (such as indicated by break-tags "<br>"); however, if text on a webpage is separated by horizontal blank-line images (auto-wrapped without using any "<br>"), a long webpage can be translated containing several thousand words.
Options
(by chronological order)
- Beginning
- English to French
- English to German
- English to Spanish
- French to English
- German to English
- Spanish to English
- French to German
- German to French
- 2nd stage
- English to Portuguese
- Portuguese to English
- 3rd stage
- English to Italian
- Italian to English
- 4th stage
- English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
- English to Japanese BETA
- English to Korean BETA
- Chinese (Simplified) to English BETA
- Japanese to English BETA
- Korean to English BETA
- 5th stage
- English to Russian BETA
- Russian to English BETA
- 6th stage
- English to Arabic BETA
- Arabic to English BETA
- 7th stage (launched February, 2007)
- English to Chinese (Traditional) BETA
- Chinese (Traditional) to English BETA
- Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) BETA
- Chinese (Traditional to Simplified) BETA
Recently, Greek and Dutch were added.
See also
External links
- Home page
- Google translate, statistical machine translation live for English to Arabic and Arabic to English
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