Inside Google Translate

Have you ever wondered how Google Translate creates your translations?

[Doodleboy]

"My mom is on fire" became
"Women will resign"

[ashnasaher]

Google translate has helped a lot in my language studies...I just want to appreciate the entire process. Thanx

[CavCave]

All of this complexity and sophistication, and yet it still translates "seven ducks by the pool" into "the books are on fire".

[ashwinmiyer]

Manual translation is a lot better though this is great. For example, when 'mannerless man' is translated to Hindi, it shows निर्दोष आदमी which means 'innocent man'. But word to word translations are cool, and 'mannerless' is translated as बेअदब, which is correct.

[altaccount]

What about the adresses that I found while translating random stuff?

[joelok]

I'm using a similar technique. Every time I want to write a sentence in English that I'm not sure if it is correct or not (English is not my native language) I am Googling the sentence in quotes. Then I'm using the search function (Ctrl+F) of the browser to further search the results to see whether this sentence has been used in the past and how many times. I'm doing this because I'm not confident about my English but in this way I'm learning something new every time.

[MultiAla]

Have you ever wondered why youtube captions are completely inaccurate unless set manually?

[lamegamertime]

0:06 "But how exactly does it work?" Badly.

[youtube.com-handle]

1:50 pretty much sums up google translator...

[JaapioNL]

Finally Google translate understands that my name does'nt mean to be mutilated by a bird

[matsemillian]

You mean "sucked" right? It's getting pretty damn impressive, imagine where it will be in a year or two.

[vibemaster]

I've noticed that a lot of words are often translated into the wrong tense or a something that has a completely different meaning.

if there will be a robot that will become self-aware, it's going to be made by google

[brb]

bruh your translate thingy just translated to a full fledged weather report

[chineseelectricbatman]

I wonder if Google translate would be possible if unicode didn't exit? Or is this using images?

[Viterkim]

@Superscriptor In some years it can indeed translate perfectly just wait.

[MadCowMartin]

I avoided translation sites for a long time. I still pictured them coming up with the weirdest phrases because of too literal translations. But that was 10 years ago with babelfish and such. I used Google translate today and I was stunned to see how accurate it was. I translated a page myself for like half an hour and at the end used Google translate for one phrase. It was really accurate and I wondered how it would translate the whole page, conclusion: I wasted at least 25 minutes of my time!

[txgmike]

My boyfriend speaks Mandarin and I speak English, we have no common language, but we are able to communicate quite well with Google Translate, and are learning each others language in the process.... we plan to marry in February. Thanks Google!

[Magn]

I like how they misspelled "Danske" at 1:50😂
It should have been "Dansk" (which means "Danish")

[aaronslens]

I love Google translate because of the Auto-detect language, instant translate, and simple interface.