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Anyone that has used Google Translate knows that you can't really trust Google Translate. It gets the job done if you're trying to understand a website or text in a foreign language.
It may even make it possible to send a message to someone that doesn't speak your language. But it's certainly not... |
10 January 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Google Translate is now a native iPad app, thanks to a minor software update issued today by Google. Version 1.3.0 of the iOS app delivers a modified interface that has been specifically tailored to the iPad user’s needs. The app that lets you translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages is now u... |
5 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Google is making it easier to make sense of the world with a new feature for its Google Translate mobile app. It is now possible to draw characters or words and have them translated.
It works with Chinese and Japanese hanzi/kanji but can also be enabled for other languages. The feature should come in handy when it&#... |
5 January 2012
08:36 GMT |
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In the increasingly interconnected world we live in, even if the web seems to speak only English, translation is becoming increasingly important, even more so when we're on the go.Google's translation technology is quite impressive and it supports quite a lot of languages. Now it's expanding that suppo... |
9 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Google News is making it easier to keep up with news, literally, from around the world. For international stories in particular, Google will start surfacing original sources as well and offer to translate them into English.The new translation feature is only available for the US English version of Google News, but th... |
26 October 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Google has made a small update to Google Translate, making it easier to switch between translations to and from different languages. There are now tabs for both sides of the translation pair, pre-filled with the languages used the most.
There are three tabs for each side and the language selection on each seems t... |
14 October 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Google has just announced an update for its Google Translate for Android application, which now offers a wider range of users the possibility to use their devices to talk with people of other language.
The application has been packed with a new, experimental feature earlier this year, namely Conversation Mode, a... |
14 October 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Google+ is gaining quite a following and it's adding more and more users in the US but also around the world. So much so that it's becoming harder for all of them to communicate, the language barrier is present as ever.
But Google is making it easier to understand what any Google+ user is saying with Goo... |
31 August 2011
10:11 GMT |
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By popular request, Google is debuting a paid version of its Translate API. The company announced earlier that it would be deprecating and shutting down the API, due to frequent abuse Google said, leading to a lot of developer outcry.
Those depending on the Translate API wanted a choice, even if it meant paying fo... |
25 August 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Google is continuing its massive design overhaul with yet another of its sites, Google Translate. The site now adheres to the new Google design mantra and is one of the first and few that have been converted in full. Granted, it's a simple site with few elements, so it wasn't that much work building or test... |
20 July 2011
10:24 GMT |
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Google Translate is a great tool in many occasions when you only need to understand something, a web page, some lyrics and so on, not to get a professional translation. This is why the addition of five Indian languages to Google Translate is a great step forward even though, the support is far more error-prone than f... |
22 June 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced that it was killing off several of its APIs. It said it was mainly due to lack of interest or because functionality was duplicated in other, newer APIs. In most cases, the decision affects some developers, but there are alternatives and there doesn't seem to be much of an outcry. Exce... |
31 May 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Google Translate is a great tool for any number of things, you can quickly understand what a website is about, what you're about eat means, what other people are saying in online conversations and so on. But as with every tool ever created, some people just love getting it to do things it was never intended to. ... |
18 May 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome 11 has just been pushed to the stable channel and Google is touting one of its biggest new features, the ability to 'talk' directly to websites with the addition of support for the HTML5 speech input API. The feature has been in testing, along with Google Chrome 11 which has just graduated to ... |
27 April 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has just announced an update to its Google Translate for Android application, with support for more languages than before, and with other improvements as well.
According to the company, the new release of the application was meant to enable users listen to translations i... |
15 April 2011
02:05 GMT |
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Google Translate is a great tool and it can come in very handy in plenty of situations. If you need some lyrics translated or understand what some obscure, foreign language website is saying, there's no faster alternative. But there are better ones. Automated translation is good for quick and dirty work, but it ... |
14 April 2011
11:15 GMT |
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One of Google's lofty missions is to open up the web to everyone. One way it's doing this is with all of the work it's doing on machine translation. The results of that work don't always have to do with the web directly though, like the brand new Google Translate app for iPhone. Google Translate f... |
9 February 2011
09:39 GMT |
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The official Google Translate for iPhone app is now available for download from Apple’s App Store, Wenzhang Zhu, Google software engineer, has announced.
According to Zhu, the new Google Translate iPhone app has all the features of the web app, as well as some significant new additions designed to improve on... |
9 February 2011
06:45 GMT |
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The ability to hear the translations in Google Translated spoken with the proper enunciation, even if with a slightly creepy, robotic voice, is one of the most useful tools of the product. And now, the creepy voice - voices actually - are getting better with a roll out of improved synthesized voices for many of the l... |
17 December 2010
16:36 GMT |
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Google Translate is introducing a subtle but important new feature, the possibility to alter the translation on the fly and pick the best version from several options for each of the words translated. You can enter your own version if the ones listed aren't accurate. The feature also gives a glimpse at how the t... |
16 December 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Translation is a big challenge for computers. Algorithms have gotten better and systems like Google's Translate do a fairly good job, by relying on a huge amounts of data. But the translation is most of the times "usable" and nothing more. Not to be discouraged by this, Google engineers have set out to transla... |
6 October 2010
05:50 GMT |
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Google has announced that it has added another language to the ones supported by Google Translate, Latin. What makes this language special is that this is the first "dead" language supported in Translate. While there are no native speakers of Latin today, it is by far one of the most used dead language. Google chose ... |
30 September 2010
06:04 GMT |
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At a conference in Germany, Google showcased a mobile translation feature that feels more at home on the Hollywood filming sets than in a phone you can buy in any store. Google Translate conversation mode will enable two people, who speak different languages, to have a conversation using Google's voice recogniti... |
29 September 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Google is rolling out a revamped Translate website. The changes focus mostly on the layout and visual elements, but the emphasis is on the ergonomics. The new website also highlights some of the more overlooked tools and features Translate provides."We’re currently rolling out several changes globally to our lo... |
31 August 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Google is making the most of its translation technology by introducing it to more and more of its products. The latest to take advantage of it is Google Docs. Users can now translate documents from inside the editor. There are 53 languages to choose from, but other than the convenience, the feature doesn’t add ... |
28 July 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Wikipedia is one of the largest sites on the web, yet its latest plans are more ambitions than ever. It wants to double its audience in the next few years, but for that it has to expand on the content already available. One way it can do this is by having more content in less used languages. And it’s getting so... |
15 July 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Google has added five more languages to its popular Google Translate tool. These languages are now in the early stages of support, so translations may not be as polished or as accurate as the other languages in Translate. With the addition of Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian to the list of supported l... |
14 May 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Google has been working very hard lately to “make the world’s information universally accessible,“ with the emphasis on ‘universally.‘ Its translation technologies and services have been evolving constantly. Translation is being integrated into various other Google products, but the main... |
12 May 2010
04:53 GMT |
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We may think of the web as incredibly open and universally available, but, apart from the growing problem of governments blocking or censoring things they don’t like, the language barrier is as much of a problem online as it is in the real world. Google has been working to bridge this gap mostly with its increa... |
23 April 2010
12:44 GMT |
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Machine translation holds a lot of promise and it has certainly progressed in recent years thanks to efforts from companies like Google. But is it good enough to handle hundreds of people talking in several different languages and allow them to understand each other? This was the question both the BBC and Google aske... |
26 March 2010
10:21 GMT |
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With the web reaching more people in more countries everyday translations are becoming even more important. There are a number of translation services online and one of the best just got a big update. Google Translate was already impressive with support for 51 languages and some interesting features, but Google took... |
17 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Google won't stop until its technology can translate between all of the languages on Earth and the company has now made a huge step forward with the addition of 285 new languages to the Google Translator Toolkit, a tool designed for professional translators and based on the Google Translate technology. This brin... |
16 October 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Google Translate, while far from perfect, is becoming increasingly used and can be just the tool for the job in certain situations, like in trying to understand a website or a text without needing a professional level translation. Now Google is opening the tool to new set of users as it has introduced an additional n... |
1 September 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Google has so many projects and services at this point that it seems that the greater hassle is not creating new ones but just getting them to work together. This can be a burden but also a blessing as all Google has to do is link two services and, presto, new functionality. This is the case now with Google Docs, the... |
28 August 2009
09:12 GMT |
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With the Iran protests still going and social media platforms getting a lot of attention in the process Google has decided to add the Persian (Farsi) language to its Google Translate service. The company rushed the Persian language support because of the unfolding events in Iran so there may still be problems with th... |
19 June 2009
03:40 GMT |
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The number of languages on Google's translation services has grown to no less than 41, following the introduction of seven new items to the list the past week. Users can now also perform automatic machine translations involving Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician. The addition of ... |
2 March 2009
08:07 GMT |
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If you ever felt that your iPhone (be it 3G or not) could be of more help to you when you're in a foreign country, or if you simply need to translate something, Google has now optimized the Google Translate service to be used with Apple's famous handset. Of course, accessing the Google Translate website vi... |
8 August 2008
11:45 GMT |
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Google Translate has always been a useful web tool because it allowed users to translate texts and websites with a single click. Moreover, just like most other Google services, it was available for free. However, Google Translate only provided a number of 26 language pairs because it only allowed users to translate t... |
8 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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