Google Conversation Mode turns Android phones into speech translators, but background noise, accents and fast talk still expose the limits of machine interpreting.
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Google prototype Conversation Mode records speech on Android and plays it back in another language, promising travellers real time translation that still depends on battery and signal.
Google's Mustafa Icil described two systems, speech-to-text and text translation, and the plan to bolt them together into live spoken translation.
Google built a system to translate poetry with metre and rhyme intact. The experiment exposed exactly where machine translation stops being translation.
Google added Latin to Google Translate, announced it in a blog post written entirely in Latin, and predicted the results would be among its most accurate.
Google is redesigning Translate for discoverability, not accuracy, and adding a page that explains how statistical machine translation actually works.
Google Docs now translates documents in 53 languages from inside the editor, but the output is plain Google Translate. Here is where that works and where it fails.
Arabic web users grew 2,000% and Chinese is overtaking English online. How Google Translate and human projects like Meedan are keeping the web readable.
Camera translation, offline packs and voice mode have removed the everyday friction of a foreign city, but they still cannot sign a consent form.
Google Translate and other translation tools are powerful tools that can help people communicate across languages and cultures