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Google Translate Is About To Get a Lot Better, Thanks To Its Machine Learning Push (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-heights dept.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is offering a big new update that should affect anyone who's ever used Google's translation services. From a report on CNBC: The new version will be rolling out in 2017 via Google Cloud, Pichai said. "We have improved our translation ability more in one single year than all our improvements over the last 10 years combined," Pichai told investors in a quarterly call, after parent company Alphabet reported mixed results.

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  1. I've seen this in action by Hussman32 · · Score: 2

    I received a long letter in Japanese, ran it through Google translate, and sent it to my Japanese colleague. He thanked me for pointing it out, it saved him an hour of work; he only needed to make minor corrections.

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    "Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
  2. deferred maintenance by Moblaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    i.e. "we haven't updated the software for a decade, but we are rolling out a patch soon"

  3. FINALLY! by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 2

    I can't wait to be able to properly swear at Alibaba merchants! ;)

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    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
  4. Re:Translation by zhiwenchong · · Score: 2

    I think you are complaining about voice recognition, not translation. Translation is mapping one language to another.