The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.

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Refinements get lost in translation, more quality controls are required, and time zones and transport schedules delay prototyping and production.

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If you think one translation is not very good quality, when you put a speech system at either end, it gets worse.

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The resulting translation is then of far higher quality.

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"This is a list of high quality literature that includes five novels in translation which readers might not otherwise get the opportunity to read", said Dublin Lord Mayor Naoise O'Muiri.

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The Commission's argument is that because it has dedicated departments - one for simultaneous interpretation and one for translation of the written word - it can guarantee uniform quality across the board.

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