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Neural machine translation is unlocking website content and connecting the world

March 28, 2022 by John Yunker

The fact that neural machine translation has the word “machine” in it should tell you that this technology has been evolving for a very long time, to back when computers were known as machines and were the size of Sprinter …

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Categories Adobe, AI, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Google Translate expands to 108 languages

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by John Yunker

Google announced the addition of five languages today: Kinyarwanda Odia (Oriya) Tatar Turkmen Uyghur (Sadly, many of the speakers of Uyghur won’t have access to this tool) Notes Google: These languages, spoken by more than 75 million people worldwide, are …

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Categories Business globalization, Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation

Leading with languages: Why 30 languages is below average

February 20, 2019 by John Yunker

According to the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card, 32 languages is the “average” number of languages supported by the leading global brands.

Categories Facebook, Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Retail globalization, Transcreation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card, Wikipedia

Google and Wikipedia: Partners in (multilingual) content

January 28, 2019 by John Yunker

In 2008, Google launched a project called Knol. Remember it? It was designed to replace Wikipedia. Google apparently wasn’t happy that so many of its visitors were quickly abandoning it for this nonprofit wealth of information. But Knol died a …

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Categories Google, India, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

A More Responsive Google Translate

December 3, 2018 by John Yunker

Google Translate is the world’s most popular translation tool. The company says it now translates 30 trillion sentences a year across 103 languages. The key data point here is the 103 languages. No other free translation tool comes close to …

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Categories Global By Design, Global navigation, Google, Machine Translation, Mobile, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Google Translate: Ten Years Later

June 7, 2016 by John Yunker

I remember when Google Translate went live. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago. I remember thinking that this relatively new technology, known as Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), was going to change everything. At the time, many within the translation community were dismissive …

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Categories Adobe, Google, Intel, Languages, Machine Translation, Microsoft

In search of a better translation icon

July 17, 2015 by John Yunker

A few years ago I wrote about the translation icon and its many variations at that point in time. I thought now would be a good time to revisit this icon. Let’s start with the Google Translate. This icon has not changed …

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Categories Global By Design, Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation

The humans behind machine translation

May 15, 2015 by John Yunker

Google Translate is the world’s most popular machine translation tool. And, despite predictions by many experts in the translation industry, the quality of Google Translate has improved nicely over the past decade. Not so good that professional translators are in any …

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Categories Crowdsourcing, Google, Languages, Machine Translation

Gabble On: Using machine translation to learn a language

July 5, 2012 by John Yunker

Ethan Shen, who has become quite an expert on the various machine translation (MT) engines, has launched a nifty web service designed to help you improve your language skills: Gabble On. Basically, the site leverages an MT engine (Google, Bing, …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

Think your translator is cutting corners? Try the machine translation detector…

June 19, 2013January 27, 2011 by John Yunker

Lior Libman of One Hour Translation has released a web tool that you can use to quickly determine if text was translated by one of the three major machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate, Yahoo! Babel Fish, and Bing Translate. It’s …

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Categories Apple, Machine Translation, Translation, Vendors
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