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Google Translate

     Google Translate is a free multilingual machine translation service to translate text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video from one language into another.It is  supports over 100 languages at various levels and serves over 200 million people daily. In November 2016 Google announced  a neural machine translation engine which translates whole  sentences at a time for 8 languages. Google Translate is available in some browsers as an extension which can run the translation engine. The Google Translate app for Android and iOS supports more than 90 languages and can translate 37 languages via photo, 32 via voice in "conversation mode", and 27 via real-time video in "augmented reality mode".In January 2015, the application uses the device's camera to speed translation. On May 11, 2016, Google introduced Tap to Translate for Google Translate for Android. In June 2011 that the API is available as a paid service.

Supported languages

The following languages are supported in Google Translate:

  1. Afrikaans

  2. Albanian

  3. Amharic

  4. Arabic

  5. Armenian

  6. Azerbaijani

  7. Basque

  8. Belarusian

  9. Bengali

  10. Bosnian

  11. Bulgarian

  12. Burmese

  13. Catalan

  14. Cebuano

  15. Chichewa

  16. Chinese

  17. Corsican

  18. Croatian

  19. Czech

  20. Danish

  21. Dutch

  22. English(American)

  23. Esperanto

  24. Estonian

  25. Filipino

  26. Finnish

  27. French

  28. Frisian

  29. Galician

  30. Georgian

  31. German

  32. Greek

  33. Gujarati

  34. Haitian Creole

  35. Hausa

  36. Hawaiian

  37. Hebrew

  38. Hindi

  39. Hmong

  40. Hungarian

  41. Icelandic

  42. Igbo

  43. Indonesian

  44. Irish

  45. Italian

  46. Japanese

  47. Javanese

  48. Kannada

  49. Kazakh

  50. Khmer

  51. Korean

  52. Kurdish(Kurmanji)

  53. Kyrgyz

  54. Lao

  55. Latin

  56. Latvian

  57. Lithuanian

  58. Luxembourgish

  59. Macedonian

  60. Malagasy

  61. Malay

  62. Malayalam

  63. Maltese

  64. Maori

  65. Marathi

  66. Mongolian

  67. Nepali

  68. Norwegian(Bokmål)

  69. Pashto

  70. Persian

  71. Polish

  72. Portuguese

  73. Punjabi

  74. Romanian

  75. Russian

  76. Samoan

  77. Scots Gaelic

  78. Serbian

  79. Sesotho

  80. Shona

  81. Sindhi

  82. Sinhala

  83. Slovak

  84. Slovenian

  85. Somali

  86. Spanish

  87. Sundanese

  88. Swahili

  89. Swedish

  90. Tajik

  91. Tamil

  92. Telugu

  93. Thai

  94. Turkish

  95. Ukrainian

  96. Urdu

  97. Uzbek

  98. Vietnamese

  99. Welsh

  100. Xhosa

  101. Yiddish

  102. Yoruba

  103. Zulu

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     Google Translate launched with a statistical machine translation engine. Google Translate does not apply grammatical rules.  The system's original creator.  Google Translate makes intelligent translation. In September 2016, a research team at Google announced the development of the Google Neural Machine Translation system, which will provide better translation results. Some languages produce better results than others. Many of the more popular languages have a "text-to-speech" audio function. Since Google Translate uses statistical matching to translate, translated text can often include apparently nonsensical and obvious errors, sometimes swapping common terms or inverting sentence meaning.

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Limitations

     Some languages produce better results than others. Google Translate performs well especially when English is the target language and the source language is from the European Union due to the prominence of translated EU parliament notes. A 2010 analysis indicated that French to English translation is relatively accurate. However, if the source text is shorter, rule-based machine translations often perform better; this effect is particularly evident in Chinese to English translations. While edits of translations may be submitted, in Chinese specifically one is not able to edit sentences as a whole. Instead, one must edit sometimes arbitrary sets of characters, leading to incorrect edits.

Yandex.Translate

     Yandex.Translate (previously Yandex.Translation) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or web pages into another language.

     The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation, developed by Yandex. The system constructs the dictionary of correspondences based on the analysis of millions of translated texts. In order to translate the text, the computer first compares it to a database of words. The computer then compares the text to the base language models, trying to determine the meaning of an expression in the context of the text.

     The translation function obtained in the search results pages (on the button "Translate") appeared in 2009 and was carried out on the basis of PROMT.

     Built in the Russian Wikipedia (translation from English into Russian).

     In addition, the translator is built into the Yandex.Browser and automatically offers to translate text from supported foreign languages.

     From September 2017 Yandex.Translator began the transition to the neural network for better translation.

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Supported languages

     Immediately after the launch of the translator in beta mode in the spring of 2011, it was only available in three languages — English, Russian and Ukrainian, with a limit of 10,000 characters.

     As of March 2018, translation is available in 94 languages:

  1. Afrikaans

  2. Albanian

  3. Amharic β

  4. Arabic

  5. Armenian

  6. Azerbaijani

  7. Basque

  8. Bashkir β

  9. Belarusian

  10. Bengali

  11. Burmese β

  12. Bosnian

  13. Bulgarian

  14. Catalan

  15. Cebuano

  16. Chinese

  17. Croatian

  18. Czech

  19. Danish

  20. Dutch

  21. Elvish (Sindarin) α

  22. English

  23. Esperanto

  24. Estonian

  25. Finnish

  26. French

  27. Galician

  28. Georgian

  29. German

  30. Greek

  31. Gujarati

  32. Haitian Creole

  33. Hebrew

  34. Hill Mari β

  35. Hindi

  36. Hungarian

  37. Icelandic

  38. Indonesian

  39. Irish

  40. Italian

  41. Japanese β

  42. Javanese

  43. Kannada

  44. Kazakh

  45. Korean

  46. Khmer

  47. Kyrgyz β

  48. Lao β

  49. Latin

  50. Latvian

  51. Lithuanian

  52. Luxembourgish

  53. Macedonian

  54. Malagasy

  55. Malay

  56. Malayalam

  57. Maltese

  58. Maori

  59. Marathi

  60. Meadow Mari β

  61. Mongolian β

  62. Nepali

  63. Norwegian

  64. Papiamento β

  65. Persian

  66. Polish

  67. Portuguese

  68. Punjabi

  69. Romanian

  70. Russian

  71. Scottish Gaelic

  72. Serbian

  73. Sinhalese

  74. Slovak

  75. Slovenian

  76. Spanish

  77. Sundanese

  78. Swahili

  79. Swedish

  80. Tagalog

  81. Tajik β

  82. Tamil β

  83. Tatar β

  84. Telugu

  85. Thai

  86. Turkish

  87. Udmurt β

  88. Ukrainian

  89. Urdu

  90. Uzbek β

  91. Vietnamese

  92. Welsh

  93. Xhosa β

  94. Yiddish

     The translation direction is determined automatically. There is the possible translation of single words, whole texts and individual web pages. When you manually enter text, the system will prompt the pop-up window. There is the possibility of a two-window view of the translation and the original web pages. In addition to machine translation, there is also an accessible and complete English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary. There is an app for devices based on the iOS software, Windows

Phone and Android. You can listen to the pronunciation of the translation and the original text (synthesized female voice).

     Translations of sentences and words can be added to "Favorites" — the relevant section is below the input field.

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Limitations

     Yandex.Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. This tool is intended to help the reader understand the general meaning of the text in a foreign language, but it does not provide accurate translations.

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