Google Translate

Google Translate 's machine translated an online service operated by Google Inc., the words, texts and whole websites. Was introduced the service in 2006. He translated initially only in the Arabic language. Previous translation offers Google used a SYSTRAN system of the company.

  • 2.1 browser plug -ins
  • Android 2.2
  • IOS 2.3
  • 2.4 Google
  • Chrome 2.5

Functions

The Google translator translates words, text or websites in 71 languages ​​(as of October 2013). One can the service pass a text without mentioning the source language - the program will then attempt to automatically identify the source language.

Limitations

Like any computer-aided translation method, the service has its limits. Thus, a precise translation is not always possible, and some languages ​​are better translated than others. Since the technique is based on a statistical translation method can again lead to strange results. In the translation of two non -English languages ​​, the entered text is usually translated first into English and then in the source language, since Google does not result in a vocabulary between all languages ​​, which leads to errors.

Implementations

Browser plug -ins

For Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, there are plug-ins for a translation directly from the viewing context.

Android

For the Android operating system since the beginning of 2010 there is an application that also provides a function, among other things, text messages and phone in the spoken texts to translate. The application supports more than 60 languages ​​.

IOS

For the operating system iOS, Google launched a mobile browser friendly version of the application based on HTML5. In addition, an app in the App Store was released.

Google

With an extension of the social network Google, Google provides a function for translating status messages.

Chrome

In the Google Chrome browser, you can activate an automatic translation of web pages through the Google translator.

API

Google provides developers a programming interface ( API) to take over the language translation in your own web pages and offers. Due to abuse of the Interface, Google introduced the free use of a connection. A new version of the API is chargeable.

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