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If you use the Chrome browser it’s easy: click on the “Translate” link located at the bottom of the page. To systematically translate the pages written in this language, activate the parameter always translated the pages in [language]. (Choose the source language).

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First, choose your original and destination languages. Then type your text – up to 160 characters each time, and up to 2.000 per day – then click Translate.

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Google Translate

Google Translate (Google Translate in English) is a free service offered by the search engine to Internet users to translate a word, a sentence, a text or a web page.

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A + 100 languages ​​translation

Launched in 2006, this automatic translation tool, competed by Systeran (used by other search engines, such as Yahoo!) Deeppl or by Reverso, is available in + 100 languages. It is intended to allow Internet users to access more and more content on the Internet, even if they are not written in their mother tongue .
It is available on Translate.Google.com.

How google translation works ?

To develop Google Translation, Google first used bilingual dictionaries . But this approach, which required a lot of time and means, was abandoned in favor of the Statistical automatic translation. The search engine relied on the work of Franz-Josef OCH , Who today directs Google Translation . This linguistic researcher works on the analysis of millions of “parallel” data (from French to English, from German to Chinese, etc.)). For this, Google used the United Nations documents, therefore translated by human translators: the search engine therefore first proposed translations into the languages ​​used within the United Nations (UN) Organization.

When is a Google translation in Breton ?

If this approach has the effectiveness and a certain precision in the translation for her, it does not directly access all languages ​​and dialects because translations between two little spoken languages ​​are rare. To go from Greek to Corsica, for example, you must therefore use English as an intermediate language.

And for some regional languages ​​like Breton, it is still not available. Google has not yet raised enough texts already translated into Breton by organizations renowned to be able to offer it. His algorithms of machine learning need huge amounts of data to learn and reach a sufficient level to be made available.

What are the possible modes ?

• Text entry: just use your keyboard.
• Conversation: get started in a bilingual conversation.
• Photos: Translate text visible in images in another language.
• Visual translation: Use your phone’s camera to display instant translations.
• Handwriting: draw letters or characters with your finger.
• Hors connection: translate text, even offline.

How to use Google Translate

If the approach used to develop the Google translation service is complex, the use of the latter is very simple. Just add a word, a sentence, even a text containing several hundred words, in the box corresponding to the original language. You must then choose the language in which the word or text will be translated . It is even possible to listen to the pronunciation of the word to be translated and the word translated into certain languages . Google translation also delivers definitions of the word to translate and synonyms with the proposed translation, also in certain languages .

These indications are used to guide the user in his translation by offering him a panel of translations which he can use according to the given context. They make up the main gap of Google Translation, namely not to take into account the context or the different meanings of a word, and thus give imprecise translations, or even without tail or head.

Today, Google’s automatic translation service is used by more than two hundred million of Internet users and Translated in one day the equivalent of the work produced by all the translators worldwide in a year (or 1 billion translations, source friend singhal).

Why google translation does not work offline ?

The tool needs to question Google servers and therefore an internet connection. But there is a solution ! Just download (on your mobile) the languages ​​that interest you, and it will work even without internet access. See the details below.

Unfortunately, on a computer it is impossible to use google translation without internet connection.

How to use google translation offline ?

You must download the languages ​​that interest you beforehand. To avoid costs (data mobile), do it with a WiFi network that does not charge you download.

1. Open the translation application
2. On the left or right of the screen, press the tongue at the top.
3. Press Download ⬇️ Next to the desired language. If it is not visible, the language cannot be downloaded.
4. When the prompt is displayed, press Download.
5. Next to each language downloaded from your device, a confirmation icon is displayed ✅

How to translate a long document ?

If your text is more than 5000 characters, it must be cut in several ends. The other solution is to import a document to be translated in full.

You can translate documents of a maximum size of 10 MB in the following formats: .doc, .docx, .odf, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .PS, .RTF, .TXT, .XLS and .xlsx.

=> If your document is in Google Docs format (in Google Drive), go to the Tools menu and click on “Translate the document”.

1. Upper left, click Documents.
2. Locate the file you want to translate.
3. To select the translation language, top right, click on the down arrow ��
4. Click Translate.

How to translate a web page in chrome ?

To translate a page in Chrome on a computer, simply display a page written in another language than that of your browser and click at the top translate.

If this does not work, right click anywhere in the page, then click on “Translate in [language]”.

On mobile, the link is located at the bottom.

How to activate automatic translation in chrome ?

1. On a computer, open Chrome.
2. In the upper right corner, click more (in the menu with 3 vertical points) then parameters.
3. At the bottom of the page, click Advanced Settings.
4. In the “Languages” section, click on language.
5. Check or uncheck “suggest me translate the pages that are written in a language that I do not know”.

How to translate a page in French on iPhone ?

If you use the Chrome browser it’s easy: click on the “Translate” link located at the bottom of the page. To systematically translate the pages written in this language, activate the parameter always translated the pages in [language]. (Choose the source language).

If this link “translate” is absent, go to the lower right corner and press more (menu with 3 vertical points) then translate.

You can also use the Google translation app, available on iOS.

How to translate a photo with your phone ?

You can use your phone’s camera to translate text into the world around you with the Google Translation Application. For example, you can translate signs, panels, brochures, menus or even handwritten notes.

1. If necessary, choose the languages ​​at the top of the screen:
   • Top left, choose detect the language or language you want to translate.
   • At the top right, choose a language that you understand.
2. Tap camera ��
3. Choose one of the 3 modes:
   • Press on Instantaneous To translate the texts seen by the lens of the camera of your smartphone live
   • Press on To scan To take a new photo and translate the text it contains and use your finger to highlight the text you want to translate.
   • Press on Import ��️ to choose an existing photo to translate and use your finger to highlight the text you want to translate.

You can translate the text of the photos you have already taken, or translate a photo with a photo that you have just taken.

Why google translation is (sometimes) so zero ?

To translate from one language to another, Google exploits multilingual corpus, for example texts translated by the UN in the 6 main languages. When it has enough texts translated from the source requested to the target language requested, everything is fine. But when this is not the case, Google goes through intermediate languages ​​and it gives bizarre results, even very bad.

Here are the explanations on video (by a person working for a human translation service):

Google translation on iPhone

Screenshot on iPad:

Google Translation on iPad

Google translation chrome extension

This tool is also available in the form ofextension To install in your Chrome browser: Download it here.
Here is an overview of the use of the translation button integrated in Chrome:

Google translation chrome extension facilitates the translation of web pages

Competitors: Deeppl (and linguee), Reverso, Systran, Lexicol.

• Deepl.com and its linguee database
• Reverse
• System
• Lexicol

There are also tools not dedicated to translation but which now include this service. This is the case for example of Canva, an online graphic creation tool. Since the introduction of AI on the platform, it is now possible to translate the texts that accompany images (social networks, flyers, logo, etc.) automatically in several languages.

Available languages

This service is available in more than 100 languages, including: Afrikaans, Albanian, German, English, Arabic, Armenian, Azéri, Basque, Bengali, Belarusian, Bosniac, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Haitian Creole, Croatian, Danish, Spanish, Esperanto, Estonien, Finnish, French, Galician, Gallen, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese , Javanais, Kannada, Khmer, Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malaysian, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongol, Dutch, Nepalese, Norwegian, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovaque, Slovenè , Somali, Swedish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamoul, Czech, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Yorouba, Zoulou.

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