January 4th, 2012 | by Edeguine | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
With our most recent update to Google Translate for Android, we’ve added an experimental new input feature: handwriting on your touchscreen.Maybe you’d like to see if three 木 make a 森, but you don’t have a Japanese keyboard installed? Just us…
November 3rd, 2011 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
Back in June, we launched five new experimental Indic languages for Google Translate on the desktop and mobile web app. Today, we’ve updated the Google Translate for iPhone app to add these new alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and T…
October 25th, 2011 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted from the Inside Search Blog)English speakers take it for granted that they can always find answers online, regardless of their search topic. But what if you speak Hindi, Welsh or Afrikaans? The amount of content available online per spea…
October 25th, 2011 | by sergioc | published in Google Translate
To help bridge language barriers between you and the news of interest to you from around the world — and to bring you more diverse perspectives on foreign events — we’ve added a new “translate” button to the expandable story boxes in the U.S. E…
October 13th, 2011 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
(Cross posted on the Official Google Blog and Google Mobile Blog)Mobile technology and the web have made it easier for people around the world to access information and communicate with each other. But there’s still a daunting obstacle: the language …
October 13th, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Mobile, Google Translate, Uncategorized
(Cross posted on the Official Google Blog and Google Translate Blog)Mobile technology and the web have made it easier for people around the world to access information and communicate with each other. But there’s still a daunting obstacle: the langua…
August 29th, 2011 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
We’ve heard from a lot of Google+ users wanting an easier way to understand posts written in other languages, so we thought we should do something about that.
We just introduced on Google+, a new Chrome extension, Google Translate for Google+, that us…
August 24th, 2011 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted from the Google Code Blog)
Back in May, we announced the deprecation of the free Translate API v1. Today, we’re introducing a paid version of the Google Translate API for businesses and commercial software developers. The Google Transla…
August 15th, 2011 | by AV | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)
A month after this spring’s devastating earthquake in Japan, we created a site where people from around the world could submit messages of hope in their own languages and have them automatically translated…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Julie Z | published in Google Mobile, Google Translate, Uncategorized
Some of you may already be using the new optical character recognition (OCR) and translation of Russian in Google Goggles that we previewed at last week’s Inside Search event. Starting today, we’re pleased to introduce some additional new features,…
June 21st, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog and on the Research Blog) Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Benga…
May 24th, 2011 | by Veronica | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted from the Google Books Blog)When bookworms stumble across a word we don’t know, we face the classic dilemma of whether to put the book down to look up the word or forge ahead in ignorance to avoid interrupting the reading experience. …
May 17th, 2011 | by Nadja Blagojevic | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted on The Official Google blog)When we built Google Translate we thought it was a cool tool, but we have to admit we had fairly straightforward ideas about what it would be useful for (lowering language barriers and making more web content a…
April 27th, 2011 | by AV | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML. Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Us…
April 14th, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Google Mobile blog)Today we launched an update to Google Translate for Android that allows you to listen to translations in several more languages.We’ve dramatically improved the quality of our spoken translations in over 15 lang…
