Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications.[3] As of 2022, Google Translate supports 133 languages at various levels.[4] It claimed over 500 million total users as of April 2016[update],[5] with more than 100 billion words translated daily, after the company stated in May 2013 that it served over 200 million people daily.[6]
Launched in April 2006 as a statistical machine translation service, it originally used United Nations and European Parliament documents and transcripts to gather linguistic data, translate text to English and then pivot to the target language.[7][8] In recent years, it has used a deep learning model to power its translations. Its accuracy, which has been criticized on several occasions,[9] has been measured to vary greatly across languages.[10]
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