March 30th, 2012 | by sergioc | published in Google Translate
At Google, we put a lot of energy into helping localize the world’s information to make it more useful to more people. It’s not just about localizing our own products — we want to provide tools that make it easy for translators and developers arou…
March 28th, 2012 | by sergioc | published in Google Translate
Google Translator Toolkit, an online translation tool built on Google Translate, greatly simplifies the translation workflow through its WYSIWYG editor, real-time collaboration and translation management system in the cloud. As amateur translators, we …
February 29th, 2012 | by Jeff | published in Google Translate
Last March, we signed an agreement with the European Patent Office (EPO) to break down linguistic barriers and improve the machine translation of patents. Today, we’ve released an update to our Google Translate system that incorporates the EPO’s pa…
February 27th, 2012 | by Edeguine | published in Google Translate
Knowing what you want to translate is sometimes only half the battle. You may have a letter from your secret admirer sitting in front of you, but if you can’t type the words into Google Translate the meaning can remain elusive. Typing in languages wh…
February 22nd, 2012 | by Nadja Blagojevic | published in Google Translate
Today, we are adding Esperanto to Google Translate, making it our 64th supported language.Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof started his quest for an easy-to-learn language shared by all people in the 1870s and first published the ideas in 1887 with his book Unu…
January 4th, 2012 | by Edeguine | published in Google Translate
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,…