'Google Translate' is a service provided by
Google Inc.
Like other translation services
Babel Fish,
AOL,
Yahoo and
MSN the current version uses
SYSTRAN.
The next version will use an approach called
statistical machine translation. The system has been trained using the
United Nations Documents as a corpus. The corpus is 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find
patterns it then uses to build
rules for translating between those languages. The next version is now a live beta for certain translations such as Arabic - English.
The service also includes translation of a entire Web page.
Options
(by chronological order)
★ Beginning
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★ English to French
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★ English to German
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★ English to Spanish
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★ French to English
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★ German to English
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★ Spanish to English
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★ French to German
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★ German to French
★ 2nd stage
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★ English to Portuguese
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★ Portuguese to English
★ 3rd stage
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★ English to Italian
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★ Italian to English
★ 4th stage
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★ English to Chinese (Simplified) BETA
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★ English to Japanese BETA
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★ English to Korean BETA
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★ Chinese (Simplified) to English BETA
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★ Japanese to English BETA
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★ Korean to English BETA
★ 5th stage
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★ English to Russian BETA
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★ Russian to English BETA
★ 6th stage
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★ English to Arabic BETA
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★ Arabic to English BETA
★ 7th stage (launched February, 2007)
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★ English to Chinese (Traditional) BETA
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★ Chinese (Traditional) to English BETA
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★ Chinese (Simplified to Traditional) BETA
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★ Chinese (Traditional to Simplified) BETA
See also
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List of Google services and tools
External links
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Home page
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Google translate, statistical machine translation live for English to Arabic and Arabic to English