When we launched the first version of Google Translate for Android in January 2010, we were excited about the year ahead. For the first time, we were bringing the capabilities supported on Google Translate—like machine translation, romanization of no…
Going Global with Google
(Cross-posted from the Inside AdWords blog)AdWords started with the idea of connecting you with customers searching for your goods and services – wherever those customers may be. Today, we’re announcing the launch of Google Global Market Finder, a…
Welcome, Google Apps users!
Google Apps recently launched an improvement that made dozens of exciting Google services available to Google Apps users for the first time. As part of this launch, Google Translator Toolkit is now available to our Google Apps users for free with their…
There are some things Google can’t translate (yet)
Google Translate may be able to translate over 50 languages, everything from Afrikaans to Yiddish, but there are some things we still can’t translate. A baby babbling, for example:For the week of November 15th we are releasing five videos of things G…
There are some things Google can’t translate (yet)
Google Translate may be able to translate over 50 languages, everything from Afrikaans to Yiddish, but there are some things we still can’t translate. A baby babbling, for example:For the week of November 15th we are releasing five videos of things G…
Endangered Languages to Endure on YouTube
(Cross-posted from the Google.org blog)Many of the world’s smallest and most endangered languages have no written form and have never been recorded or scientifically documented. Today, the National Geographic Enduring Voices YouTube channel w…
(Cross-posted from the Google.org blog)Many of the world’s smallest and most endangered languages have no written form and have never been recorded or scientifically documented. Today, the National Geographic Enduring Voices YouTube channel w…
Poetic Machine Translation
Once upon a midnight dreary, long we pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of translation lore.When our system does translation, lifeless prose is its creation;Making verse with inspiration no machine has done before.So we want …
Poetic Machine Translation
Once upon a midnight dreary, long we pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of translation lore.When our system does translation, lifeless prose is its creation;Making verse with inspiration no machine has done before.So we want …
Veni, Vidi, Verba Verti
[We’ve added Latin as an alpha language to translate.google.com! Alpha languages aren’t perfect, but we think the addition will help unlock many classic Latin texts and documents. Learn more from our programmer Jakob in the post below. Don’t spea…
Today, you may have noticed a brighter looking Google Translate. We’re currently rolling out several changes globally to our look and feel that should make translating text, webpages and documents on Google Translate even easier. These changes will b…
Translate faster with keyboard shortcuts in Translator Toolkit
Speed is an important part of translation, whether you’re a professional rushing to meet a client deadline or a volunteer looking to spend less time on a mouse and more on your keyboard. Last month, we added a dozen new shortcuts to Translator Toolki…
Translate faster with keyboard shortcuts in Translator Toolkit
Speed is an important part of translation, whether you’re a professional rushing to meet a client deadline or a volunteer looking to spend less time on a mouse and more on your keyboard. Last month, we added a dozen new shortcuts to Translator Toolki…
Translating Wikipedia
We believe that translation is key to our mission of making information useful to everyone. For example, Wikipedia is a phenomenal source of knowledge, especially for speakers of common languages such as English, German and French where there are hundr…
The Polish Ministry of Economy goes multi-lingual with Google Translate
The Google Translate team is always thinking about how to make information accessible to all internet users, not matter what language it is written in. Often people come across webpages in foreign languages, but don’t know that they can go to Google …