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New features make Translate more accessible for its 1 billion users

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:10:00 +0000

Google Translate adds contextual translation options, more accessible app features and a new design.

Ask a Techspert: How does Lens turn images to text?

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Decoding what the coders do: Ana works in Lens, focusing on text recognition. But what does that actually involve?

Delivering on our $1 billion commitment in Africa

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000

How we're partnering with policymakers, non-profits, businesses and creators to make the internet more useful to more people in Africa.

Building and testing helpful AR experiences

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0000

We’ll start small-scale testing of AR prototypes in public settings to understand how these devices can help people in their everyday lives.

5 of our favorite Android widget features

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Android widgets are an easy way to personalize your Home screen, putting the actions and information that’s most important to you, front and center.

Google Translate learns 24 new languages

Wed, 11 May 2022 17:16:00 +0000

Google Translate adds 24 new languages, including Indigenous languages of the Americas and languages from around Africa and India.

Google Translate: One billion installs, one billion stories

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Here’s how Google Translate has changed over the years as it grew to more than one billion installs.

Now you can transcribe speech with Google Translate

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:30:00 +0000

With the Transcribe feature in the Google Translate Android app you can transcribe a speech in a foreign language as it is happening.

Google Translate adds five languages

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:30:00 +0000

Google Translate added five new languages: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur.

Google Translate improves offline translation

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:00:00 +0000

In 59 languages, offline translation is 12 percent more accurate.

Speak easy while traveling with Google Maps

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Google Maps now translates and speaks names and addresses of places for you when you don’t know the local language.

Google Translate’s instant camera translation gets an upgrade

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Google Translate adds new languages, source language auto-detect, and increased accuracy to its instant camera translations feature.

Reducing gender bias in Google Translate

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:42:00 +0000

Google Translate is launching gender-specific translations: masculine and feminine results for a gender-neutral query.

A new look for Google Translate on the web

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:59:00 +0000

The redesigned Google Translate website with enhanced feature discoverability, updates for Material Design, and improved usability.

Bringing hope to a refugee family, using Google Translate

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:00:00 +0000

How one Googler used Google Translate to help a refugee family.

Offline translations are now a lot better thanks to on-device AI

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:43:00 +0000

We’re bringing neural machine translation technology on device, so you can get high-quality translations even when you're offline.

Tune in for the world’s first Google Translate music tour

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:55:00 +0000

Introducing the world’s first Google Translate music launch and tour—three gigs, three cities and three languages.

Making the internet more inclusive in India

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:30:00 +0000

We’re bringing our neural machine translation technology to nine Indian languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada.

Even better translations in Chrome, with one tap

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:30:00 +0000

We're adding neural machine translations to Chrome for nine more languages, for a total of more than 20. The result is higher-quality, full-page translations that are mo…

The Arrival of our 32nd Word Lens Language, Heptapod B

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0000

We’ve combined convolutional neural networks with transtemporal non-linear logogram discernment to launch our most ambitious instant camera translation yet.