Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

For language translation tasks, traditional machine translation systems like Google Translate and those based on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) or Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have been ...

Google is rolling out a major upgrade to Translate, using its Gemini AI models to deliver more natural text translations, real-time speech translation through headphones, and expanded ...

It looks like a quirk in Google Translate’s new AI-powered Advanced mode can make it chat with the user rather than translate ...

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UPDATE (December 16, 2025): Google Translate has added a bunch of new languages to its practice mode, not to mention that it received a Gemini boost. Summary: Google Translate is the company’s ...

With the advancement of technology, the world is more connected than ever. Even the language barriers are being overcome with it. Although we have great tools like Google Translate to help us ...

The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognized for a long track record of influential ideas with this year’s Turing Award, the most prestigious in the field. Sutton’s 2019 ...

Anyone who has any empathy at all knows, it’s easy to understand why an English-language learner would choose to constantly use Google Translate in their writing. And, as every teacher of ELLs knows, ...