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Google Translate celebrates 6th birthday
Added At: 2012-04-29 10:51 PM
Last Updated At: 2012-04-29 10:51 PM
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Google Translate marked its sixth birthday on Thursday with news that more than 200
million people use the free online translation service monthly. “In a given day, we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in one million books,” Google Translate engineer Franz Och said in a blog post. “We iMagine a future where anyone in the world can
consume and share any info-rmation, no matter what language it’s in, and no matter where it pops up.”Och worked at US military research arm DARPA before joining California-based Google in 2003 to be part of a team of engineers ramping up the quality of computer-driven language translations. Google Translate, which lets people paste or type text in an on-screen box to have it quickly converted into a language of their choice, rolled out in 2006 with English, Chinese and Arabic. “We can now translate among any of 64 different languages, including many with a small Web presence, such as Bengali, Basque, Swahili, Yiddish... and even Esperanto,” Och said of the service at translate.google.com.Traffic to Translate from smartphones has been growing expo-
nentially, and more than 92 per cent of the users are from outside the United States, according to Google. “What all the professional human translators in the world produce
in a year, our system translates in roughly a single day,” Och said. “By this estimate, most of the translation on the planet is now done by Google Translate.”
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Posted on: 2012-04-30 12:22:58
Esperanto has a larger Web presence than Franz Och believes. By the way, I'd like to see even more use made of Esperanto as a way of bringing people of different nationalities together. Bill Chapman, Wales, U.K.