Google Improves Translate with More Languages

Google’s translation service has far surpassed many other similar services on the internet. With the large span of their operations as well as an extensive language database, Google’s translation features are among the most sophisticated and reliable in the planet. Of course, it comes with the territory, Google’s search engine is the fastest and most used of all.

Their translations service has since expanded heavily to mobile phones –which are often the go-to gadget of choice. Google Goggles received an update that enabled for the visual scanning and translation of text. Google voice translate also received its second batch of supported languages. Of course, the core Google Translate function is still updated, in fact, five new languages were just added in recently.

Research scientist Ashish Venugopal makes a statement:

“At Google, we are always trying to make information more accessible, whether by adding auto-captioning on YouTube and virtual keyboards to search or by providing free translation of text, websites and documents with Google Translate. In 2009, we announced the addition of our first ‘alpha’ language, Persian, on Google Translate. Today, we are excited to add five more alpha languages: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian — bringing the total number of languages on Google Translate to 57.”

“These languages are available while still in alpha status. You can expect translations to be less fluent than for our other languages, but they should still help you understand the multilingual web. We are working hard to ‘graduate’ these new language(s) out of alpha status, just as we did some time ago with Persian. You can help us improve translation quality as well. If you notice an incorrect translation, we invite you click ‘Contribute a better translation’. If you are a translator, then you can contribute translation memories with the Translator Toolkit. This helps us build better machine translation systems especially for languages that are not well represented on the web.”

“Collectively, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Georgian and Urdu have roughly 100 million speakers. We hope that these speakers can now more easily access the entire multilingual web in their own language.”

Tags: Google, Google-Goggles, Google-Talk, Google-Translate