Late a year ago, Google announced that more than one million people speaking 117 languages had made 50-million contributions through the Google Translate Community. Out of the 13 new languages, Sindhi is one which is spoken by people in India as well as Pakistan.
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This impressive new milestone wasn’t a purely technical achievement – indeed, Google notes, “as already existing documents can’t cover the breadth of a language, we also rely on people like you in Translate Community to help improve current Google Translate languages and add new ones”.
The new languages include Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa.
Android: Microsoft has been hard at work making its Translator app a competent rival for Google Translate. Brin ran an email written in Korean through the software, and the translation read “The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes”.
Google Translate first launched in April 2006, using rule-based machine translation between English and Arabic.
The update will be arriving on the machine translation tool over the coming days, and Google is calling on speakers of the newly added languages to contribute their own interpretations. It is the result of a fruitful cooperation between human wit and robot multitasking. Today it reaches over 500 million people around the world each month, and processes a million words a second. The biggest problem with this kind of programs is the fact that a translation consists in more than translating the words.
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Saying “hello” online in Sindhi has now got easier as the Google Translate will now offer Sindhi in its language options. But now, it’s not just these widely-spoken languages that have been given support.
