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…
Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome
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…
February 8th, 2011 | by Unknown | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
Back in August 2008, we launched a Google Translate HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today, the official Google Translate for iPhone app is available for download from the App Store. The new app has all of the features of the web app, plus some signifi…
January 12th, 2011 | by Andrew | published in Google Translate
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…
January 12th, 2011 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile, Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Translate Blog.)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 G…
December 16th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
One of the features of Google Translate that users enjoy the most is the ability to listen to the text they have just translated in audio form. To play an audio version of the translated text we use a speech synthesizer, a computer algorithm that conve…
December 16th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate
One of the features of Google Translate that users enjoy the most is the ability to listen to the text they have just translated in audio form. To play an audio version of the translated text we use a speech synthesizer, a computer algorithm that conve…
When one translation just isn’t enough
December 15th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
When you come to Google Translate, we always do our best to give you the most accurate translation our system can produce. However, sometimes translation can be pretty tough. Language is full of ambiguities and our system has to do its best to make the…
When one translation just isn’t enough
December 15th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate
When you come to Google Translate, we always do our best to give you the most accurate translation our system can produce. However, sometimes translation can be pretty tough. Language is full of ambiguities and our system has to do its best to make the…
On-screen Keyboards on Google Translate
December 14th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate, Uncategorized
Today Google Translate supports translation between almost sixty languages, but typing many of those on a standard QWERTY keyboard ranges from difficult to impossible. That’s why today we’re happy to announce the addition of on-screen keyboards to …
December 14th, 2010 | by Missy | published in Google Translate
Today Google Translate supports translation between almost sixty languages, but typing many of those on a standard QWERTY keyboard ranges from difficult to impossible. That’s why today we’re happy to announce the addition of on-screen keyboards to …
Going Global with Google
December 6th, 2010 | by Andrew | published in Google Translate
(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…