All of us have used Google Translate at some point in our life. It has helped millions of people communicate in the absence of professional translation. The best part about Google translation is – it is fast, free and most of the time provides an accurate translation of a word, sentence or paragraph. It may not be 100% accurate, but gives a general meaning of a foreign language.
Though many of us are familiar with Google Translate, we might not know some interesting facts about it. Being a well-known certified translation service, here we have assembled 5 interesting facts you must know about Google translation.
Origin
Google translate was introduced in 2006. That time, it used to support only English and Arabic. It has come a long way since then; and at present, it can translate 103 languages!
Users
According to reports of Google translate blog, the service is used by around 500 million users. On the contrary, when this service was started, users were measured in hundreds.
How does Google translate work?
It functions using statistical machine translation (SMT), where computers analyze millions of already existing translated documents from the web to learn vocabulary and search for patterns in a language. The application then picks up the most statistical option when asked to translate a text.
Billions of words a day
It is one of the most amazing facts worth knowing about Google Translate. Google translates more than 100 billion of words every day. It can be equivalent to around an entire sack of 128,000 Bibles each day.
Highest number of users
92% of Google translate users are from outside the US. The highest numbers of users are from Brazil.
It is more than a webpage
One doesn’t need to be online to use Google translate. A user just needs to download the Android app, and it can give a rough translation in approximately 90 different languages on a smartphone (that too without using any data!).
Inaccurate translations
If you find a translation mistake in Google translate, you can report it to Google translate community.
Despite all these facts, Google translate cannot replace human translators because it usually does not provide accurate translations for a reader to figure out the source of text. Along with, Google does not use it for own transaction of business.
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