Notorious for its embarrassingly inaccurate translation,
Google Translate has taken a huge leap in its recent upgrade. Utilizing the
neural system, the software now translates based on a sentences’ context, as opposed
to phrase-based algorithms translations in the past. This technology, which
made its debut a few days ago has been made available to languages such as
English, Chinese, Spanish, French and German. Take for example, a German quote from Albert Einstein was previously translated as “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that they have arisen.” With neural machine translation, the improved version becomes “Problems can never be solved with the same way of thinking that caused them.” As seen, it produces a much more fluent result with proper grammar usage.
Since its release, the improvement has received an
overwhelmingly positive response from users all over the world. As of now, the
translation app only offers eight language pairs. In the future, Google hopes
to eventually roll Neural Machine Translation out to all 103 languages.
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