Google Translate is a free online translation service launched by Google in April 2006. Early versions relied on existing translation software licensed from other companies, but in 2007 Google began using its own statistical machine translation system, which learned from large collections of texts already translated by humans, such as documents of the United Nations and the European Union. The service gradually added more languages, as well as speech, camera and offline modes. In 2016 Google began switching to a neural machine translation system, which improved fluency considerably. It supports well over a hundred languages, although quality varies, and it is typically weaker for languages with limited written resources.
Before and after
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 15 March 2006Founding of United Nations Human Rights Council
- from 24 March 2006 to 16 January 2011Premiere of Hannah Montana
- 23 April 2006Release of Spotify
- 28 April 2006Release of Google Translate
- 10 May 2006Founding of Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano
- 23 June 2006Creation of Xubuntu
- 24 June 2006Déjà Vu
- from 12 July 2006 to 14 August 20062006 Lebanon War
More in Science & technology
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- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
The era
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