Google Translate adds new AI features, contextual translation and more

Google has improved its Google Translate service by incorporating new features, enhanced context-based translation options, and a revamped design. Continue reading “Google Translate adds new AI features, contextual translation and more”

Google Translate’s instant camera translation gets support for over 100 languages, auto language detection, NMT technology

Google is adding new features to translate. Google Lens already has instant translation that lets you point your camera at text and it will automatically detect the language and overlay the translation right on top of the original words. Now the Translate app is getting  support for more languages, automatic language detection, improved translation powered by Neural Machine Translation and a new design.

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Google Translate now offers gender specific translations

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In its latest attempt to improve Translate, Google aims to curb gender bias by providing feminine and masculine translations for some gender-neutral words on the Google Translate website. Google Translate learns from hundreds of millions of already-translated examples from the web. Continue reading “Google Translate now offers gender specific translations”

Google Translate gets offline translation, conversation mode for more Indian languages

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Google has updated the Translate app by bringing offline translation support to more Indian languages. Starting today, users in Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu can experience offline translations and instant visual translation in their preferred language. Continue reading “Google Translate gets offline translation, conversation mode for more Indian languages”

Google Translate now uses neural machine translation for Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese

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Google has announced that it will apply neural machine translation for translations of text in Hindi, Russian, and Vietnamese. Introduced in September last year, Neural machine translation translates whole sentences at a time instead of piece by piece. Continue reading “Google Translate now uses neural machine translation for Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese”

Google introduces Neural Machine Translation to enhance Google Translate

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Google has announced a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system for improved translation. The NMT is said to reduce translation errors across its Google Translate service by between 55 percent and 85 percent.

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Google Translate adds 13 new languages, now supports a total of 103 languages

Google has added support for 13 new languages viz Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa. Launched 10 years ago, Google Translate says that it now covers 99% of the online population.

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Google Translate to get in-app translation feature for Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Google has announced that it is bringing in-app translation to Android 6.0 Marshmallow users starting this week. The Translate app will be able to translate text into the native language right inside some of their favorite apps.

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Google Translate expands instant visual translation support to 20 additional languages

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Google Translate is a veritable part of your travel arsenal as you try to navigate the labyrinthine pathways of a foreign language while on a vacation. Visual translation in particular is a particularly useful tool for a quick way to overlay translated text over the original, remove language related barriers. The app has so far offered visual translation services for about 7 languages. This is all set to be expanded to 20 additional languages which will bring the total to 27 supported languages. Continue reading “Google Translate expands instant visual translation support to 20 additional languages”

Google Translate adds 10 more Asian and African languages

Google Translate is getting 10 new languages in its latest update. Support for the 10 new languages is now live on the Google Translate web portal, and Google says that support will reach mobile apps shortly.

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Google Translate’s next update to have WordLens integration and conversation mode

Google Translate’s upcoming update will add WordLens integration. For those unaware, WordLens is an app which translates visual into texts without a network connection.

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Google Mobile Search for Android gets support for Hindi Handwrite input

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Google has a introduced a new feature in Google Search for Android, where users will be able to write on their screen in India’s most common language – Hindi. Handwrite has been an option that has been there for quite sometime now, but Hindi was not an option until now. Handwrite enables users to Google search by handwriting on the screen instead of using the on-screen keyboard. From today, users will be able to write Hindi words on the screen and get search results based on that. Continue reading “Google Mobile Search for Android gets support for Hindi Handwrite input”

Google Translate on Android gets offline mode via update

With the latest update to Google Translate for Android, the company has added a much requested feature. The app now makes it possible to enable offline translations on a per language basis. Users will need to download a fairly large language pack to enable said feature. Google notes that offline translations will not be as good as those down in the cloud.

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Google Translate for Android v2.5 update brings camera input, instant translation and more

Google Translate for Android has been updated to version 2.5 that brings new features such as camera input for translating text from images, instant translation that translates words as you type, dialect preference for speech input and more. Continue reading “Google Translate for Android v2.5 update brings camera input, instant translation and more”