Users pay call and data charges for phone-to-phone conversations and translation data for screen text and voice readouts.
GlobalTV uses machine translation of the closed captioning text to produce subtitles in Spanish, French, German, English, Portuguese or Italian.
Once you click it, you can then swipe your finger across any text area to look up definition or translation, and you can choose your desired target language in the app's settings.
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She grew up in the village and wrote the piece - a translation from French of the text of the early world atlas of Ortelius - when she was aged 12 or 13.
Understanding is crucial not only to accurate translation, but also for dictation and rendering text as speech.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
For many years the Catholic Church discouraged translation of the official Latin Vulgate edition for fear that the text might be corrupted or misinterpreted.
Translation is virtually instantaneous after the device's camera captures the text.
We already provide translation for Web pages on the fly as you browse in Chrome, text in mobile photos, YouTube video captions, and speech-to-speech 'conversation mode' on smartphones.
Once a machine translation system has been tuned appropriately, it can produce far more accurate results if the input text is more consistent.
In early 2010, Google Goggles came out, extracting text from an image taken by a user and converting it with the help of a technique called statistical machine translation.
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Coping with that load obliges the European Commission to maintain the largest translation staff in the world, more than 1, 500 people handling about 1.2m pages of text a year.
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