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Google Translate: Now in 51 languages

August 30, 2009 by John Yunker

In February of this year, Google Translate surpassed 40 languages. Six months later, Google added ten more languages, a two-year growth trajectory illustrated below: Google went from 13 languages to 51 languages in less than 16 months. Not bad. And, …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Translation

Have you dined at the Translate Server Error lately?

May 8, 2009 by John Yunker

File this post under Lost in (Machine) Translation. This photo arrived courtesy of Gareth Morgan at Neovia Financial. Apparently the proprietor of this restaurant in China decided to create an English-language sign using machine translation (MT) software and, apparently, the …

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Categories China, Machine Translation, Web Globalization

Google Translate graduates to the home page

March 25, 2009 by John Yunker

Only a few days after Microsoft announces a widget to bring machine translation into your Web site’s home page, Google takes a step towards integrating machine translation into its home page. According to the unofficial Google blog, Google has inserted …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation

Google Translate now in 41 languages

February 28, 2009 by John Yunker

Google marches ahead with its machine translation engine, adding Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician. This time last year, Google supported a mere 13 languages, which was in itself not bad. But I particularly like the minor tweaks …

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Categories Google, Languages, Machine Translation

Google Translate adds languages; Microsoft adds translation widget

September 29, 2008 by John Yunker

Google Translate recently added 11 languages to its impressive portfolio of supported languages. To give you an idea of just how aggressive Google has been in this area, here is a screen grab of Google Translate from 2006: And here …

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Categories Google, Machine Translation, Web Globalization

The TAUS take on Google Translation Center

September 15, 2008 by John Yunker

The post I wrote on the Google Translation Center has been the most-visited page on this blog over the past month. Clearly, Google has struck a nerve in the translation industry — and its service is not even live yet. …

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Categories Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Vendors

Watch out ProZ, here comes Google Translation Center

August 4, 2008 by John Yunker

Within the translation industry, ProZ is widely known as the leading public network of freelance translators and buyers of translation services. But here comes Google… According to Blogoscoped, Google is about to launch the Google Translation Center. This is an …

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Categories Domain names, Google, Machine Translation, Software Localization, Translation, Vendors

Google Translate is growing up

May 16, 2008 by John Yunker

What began as just another “gisting” application — like Babel Fish — is gradually becoming an impressive translation tool. And I’m not referring to the quality of translation, though that is improving as well. I’m referring to the breadth of …

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Categories Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation
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