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Seeking feedback on Google Groups article

Hello. I wrote an article about a related topic, Google Groups. As a new Wikipedia writer, I would appreciate any feedback on my article. Please help me by posting your feedback at the Wikipedia:Article Feedback Desk. If you wrote an article and are seeking feedback on it, please post your article at the Article Feedback Desk as well. If you could suggest better ways for me to seek feedback on my article, do leave a note at my talk page. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 13:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Incomplete

I came across this page, and noticed Dutch wasn't one of the languages GT offers. However, this link clearly shows that translation from/to Dutch is possible. I haven't checked if any other languages are missing, and since I don't know when it was added, I will not add it to the article either. But I sure hope someone who knows more about it will :) -- Sander (talk) 19:34, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

How do I know which combination has the biggest bilangual corpus?

If you know two languages (nr.1 nr. 2) well and you want to translate text into a third one then what language should you choose. I guess the one with the biggest bilangual corpus between them yields the best translation. But what is it? And how do I know which combination has a bigger corpus 1 & 3 or 2 & 3? Andries (talk) 06:33, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Beta version

I tried the oldest translations French-English and Arab-English and even they are labelled beta when accessed from the Netherlands, so I concluded that the whole service is beta. Andries (talk) 07:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Please try to access these services from other countries too, because the information provided by google is automatically adapted dependent on the country from which you are accessing. I do not know how to turn it off. Andries (talk) 08:16, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Automatic Language Detection

There is nothing about the Automatic Language detection feature here. My English is quite bad so i prefer not to edit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.4.150 (talk) 10:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I added that in the Intro, as well as mentioning the availability of the "swap" feature. I'm not sure if I put those in the right place in the article, though... 98.202.38.225 (talk) 18:30, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Beta

I thing Google Translate is not beta anymore. Logo doesn't contain word "beta".--Sevela.p (talk) 09:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Names of Google Translate in other languages

Can we list the official names for "Google Translate" in all the languages that Google Translate offers translation services in? -- PK2 (talk) 22:06, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

"Pranks"

The page says that there are "pranks" in the Slovenian module. These aren't pranks, they are errors due to the method used - statistical machine translation - and exist for every language pair. I have gotten some of the most bizarre translation mistakes. Perhaps the most common are substitutions of proper names (the Tagalog to English translated "Pilipinas" as "Japan" in certain sentences, for example). --Node (talk) 04:02, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I just had an Italian>English translation in which "Italia" became "Canada". However, when I removed the context, the translation was correct. Anyway, the Criticism section has already been removed. checkY --94.79.143.154 (talk) 15:18, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Some queries return very strange results. Hungarian->English: "ostobaság"->"nonsense" (OK) but "Ostobaság"->"Toshiba". What are they going for, Pearl Harbor II?--87.162.4.157 (talk) 20:41, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

You can mix English and Dutch

When translating into Russian, you can mix English & Dutch and it will translate both into Russian. I found out by accident and did not read it anywhere. Andries (talk) 19:25, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

It's probably because most (all?) translations use English as an intermediate language. So it will recognize the language as Dutch and translate from Dutch to English first and leave the English words intact, unless they resemble Dutch words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.4.157 (talk) 20:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Text-to-Speech for French

I just noticed today that I was able to hear words which were translated into French. Is there any official report on this? - techietim (talk) 20:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

  • It does not apply grammatical rules, since its algorithms are based on statistical analysis rather than traditional rule-based analysis.[3]

should probably read: it does not uses explicitly coded grammar rules provided by linguists, but uses the grammar implicitly contained in the statistics of the training corpus. What do you think? -- 85.178.253.179 (talk) 18:57, 29 April 2010 (UTC) wee have some″basis″OK§§

Cyclical translations

I just added an example of "cyclical" translations that probably will be quickly removed because it's OR:

This effect can be seen by repeatedly translating a given input back and forth between two languages, using the output of one translation as the input to the next. For example, using a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the languages English and Japanese, one obtains the following sequence of results:
  1. To be or not to be; that is the question.
  2. するかどうかできるようにするには、問題であることを確認します。
  3. To whether to allow, make sure to be a problem.
  4. 許可するかどうかをするには、問題であることを確認してください。
  5. For if you accept it, please make sure to be a problem.
  6. あなたが問題になることを確認してください、それを受け入れる場合にしてください。
  7. Please make sure you have a problem, if you please accept it.
  8. あなたはそれを受け入れてください場合は、問題を抱えていることを確認してください。
  9. If you accept it please, please make sure that you have a problem.
  10. 同意する場合は、あなたが問題を抱えていることを確認してください、お願いします。
  11. If you agree, please make sure you have a problem, thank you.
  12. 同意する場合は、あなたが、あなたに感謝問題を抱えていることを確認してください。
  13. If you agree, you confirm that please thank you have a problem.
  14. 同意する場合は、あなたが問題を抱えて感謝してくださいことを確認します。
  15. If you agree, please verify that you have a problem thanks.
  16. 同意する場合は、問題のおかげを持っていることを確認してください。
  17. If you agree, please make sure you have the thanks of the problem.
The last two translations are stable in the sense that each is translated into the other, so no new sentences are created by repeated translations.

I wonder if anyone can find a similar example worth citing in the article. It seems to me that this has some relevance to the quality of translations between languages that use English as an intermediary. By the way, compare the above output to that of Babel Fish for the same initial input:

  1. To be or not to be; that is the question.
  2. あるためまたはないため; それは質問である。
  3. Because of a certain or because it is not; That is question.
  4. のためにまたはないので; それは質問である。
  5. Because or it is not for the sake of; That is question.
  6. のためにないのでまたはそれ; それは質問である。
  7. Because it is not for the sake of or that; That is question.
  8. それがのためにまたはそれないので; それは質問である。
  9. Because or it cannot curve that for the sake of; That is question.
  10. それをのために曲げることができないのでまたはそれ; それは質問である。
  11. Because it is not possible or to bend because of that, that; That is question.
  12. それが可能またはこのような理由で曲がるためにではないので、それ; それは質問である。
  13. Because it is not because that bends in the possibility or this kind of reason, that; That is question.
  14. その理由の可能性かこの種類で曲がるのでそれがないので、それ; それは質問である。
  15. Because it bends in possibility or this type of the reason, because it is not that, that; That is question.
  16. それが理由の可能性かこのタイプで曲がるので、それではないので、それ; それは質問である。
  17. That bends in possibility or this type of the reason because, then because it is not, that; That is question.
  18. ないのでその理由の可能性かこのタイプでので、そして、それ曲がる; それは質問である。
  19. Because it is not, in possibility or this type of the reason because, and, that it bends; That is question.
  20. それがないので、理由の可能性かこのタイプで、および、曲げるそれので; それは質問である。
  21. Because it is not that, because in possibility or this type of the reason, and, that it bends; That is question.
  22. それが曲げる理由の可能性かこのタイプでこと、ので、およびではないので、; それは質問である。
  23. In possibility or this type of the reason which that bends thing, because, and because is not; That is question.
  24. その事を曲げる理由の可能性かこのタイプではないので、ので、そして; それは質問である。
  25. Because it is not possibility or this type of the reason which bends the, because, and; That is question.

I stopped there because it didn't seem to be leading to a stable pair of translations. It's interesting how BF latches on to "That is question" and never lets it go, but the rest of the output gets more and more inscrutable, whereas each iteration of GT makes sense, more or less, but retains none of the original meaning. - dcljr (talk) 18:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Google Toolbar Word Translator feature not mentioned in Browser Integration Subsection

I have noticed that the Google Toolbar word translator (documented at [GoogleHelp]) is not in the Browser Integration section of this article. Nor is the Google Toolbar word translator feature mentioned in the Google Toolbar article. It should be in both articles as it is a major user of Google Translator services (perhaps the most major one) and it is a major feature of the Toolbar, one which many foreign students at English language universities use. I have seen them use the toolbar at ANU in Canberra on their laptops.

I am the creator of the GoogleTrans Wikipedia gadget which offers services similar to the Google Toolbar word translator. I placed reference to this in the Browser Integration subsection of the article. User:Tedder removed this reference and we had the following exchange at User_talk:Tedder#GoogleTrans_is_an_example_of_browser_integration_with_GoogleTranslate.

My main argument for inclusion of the word translator of the Google Toolbar in the Browser Integration section is that the Toolbar is probably the major user of Google Translation services in the world. It is indeed an extension/active control of the browser. The section is just not informative unless the word translator of the Toolbar is mentioned.

It is odd that the word translator is missing from both Google Translate and Google Toolbar.

As well, I would argue for a brief mention, possibly not mentioning Wikipedia, of my GoogleTrans gadget, as it is the only Javascript code that substantially replicates and extends the Google Toolbar word translator. As such it is of interest to programmers.

Wikipedia is a multi-language site, one of the biggest in the world. It should use such language translator tools as the Google Toolbar and the GoogleTrans gadget. Overcoming language barriers is one of the goals of Wikipedia, secondary only to sharing knowledge and banishing ignorance.

Endo999 (talk) 22:36, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Translation

I have not found a source that says Google Translate translates from the original language to English and then the target language instead of a direct translation.Jasper Deng (talk) 03:09, 23 October 2011 (UTC).

I wrote in the French Wikipedia : « avec Google traduction l'anglais se trouve désormais au cœur du système »[1]
  1. ^ Barbara Cassin, Directrice de recherches au CNRS, nous dit en passant dans Intraduisible et mondialisation que « L'offre multilingue tout comme l'offre de traduction, omniprésentes sur Google, pivotent effectivement toutes deux autour d'une seule et même langue, l'anglais, ou plus exactement, le globish. »

    2. Angelina Jolie Mix up

    http://m.gizmodo.com/5866975/google-translate-is-obsessed-with-angelina-jolie--88.111.125.135 (talk) 13:20, 11 December 2011 (UTC)http://m.gizmodo.com/5866975/google-translate-is-obsessed-with-angelina-jolie

    Chinese room link?

    It might be useful to link this page to Chinese room, as it is basically a phrase-based version of this approach. RichMorin (talk) 05:31, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

    Marathi

    Marathi is listed twice on the timeline. (I thought i'd point this out as it appears to be a mistake) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.111.112.150 (talk) 19:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

    Article is incorrect

    Here in Germany (translate.google.de) Google uses a European Spanish accent. When I type in "cerveza" it's pronounced with "th" (thervetha). Also the translator here use an European English accent -- If I type in "beer" it's pronounced non-rothic; and "current" is pronunced with [a] (cahrrent). Also, not all voices are female, the European English accent is definitively male. --2.244.68.17 (talk) 18:27, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

    googl translation

    Dear sir please find the attached file here have MIP Monthly activity report kindly attached my colleagues — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.205.197.202 (talk) 09:54, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

    A single parent (or solo parent) is a parent, not living with a spouse or partner, who has most of the day-to-day responsibilities in raising the child or children. A single parent is usually considered the primary caregiver, meaning the parent the children have residency with the majority of the time.[1] If the parents are separated or divorced, children live with their custodial parent and have visitation or secondary residence with their noncustodial parent.[2] In western society in general, following separation, a child will end up with the primary caregiver, usually the mother, and a secondary caregiver, usually the father.[3]

    Historically, death of a partner was a major cause of single parenting.[4] Single parenting can result from separation, death, child abuse/neglect, or divorce of a couple with children. Custody battles, awarded by the court or rationalized in other terms, determine who the child will spend majority of their time with. This affects children in many ways, and counseling is suggested for them. A mother is typically the primary caregiver in a single parent family structure as a result of divorce or unplanned pregnancy.

    Fathers have been the less common primary caregiver in the past, presumably due to the father working most of the day resulting in less bonding with the children, or possibly a young child needing to still nurse, or if childcare was necessary while the father works, the mother would be seen to be better suited while fathers works; but this scenario has shifted in recent years, as many fathers are taking an active parental role as Stay-at-home dad as more mothers are in the workforce and being the sole provider to the family, resulting in fathers bonding and connecting more to their children.

    Single parent adoption is sometimes an option for adults who want children but do not have a partner, another option could be to foster a child.

    The demographics of single parenting show a general increase worldwide in children living in single parent homes.[5] Single parenting has become an accepted norm in the United States and is an accepted trend found in multiple other countries. Debates concerning not only the single parents themselves, but also the children involved, support for the families in single parent households, and more have arisen. Although divorce is one of the main events that leads to single parenting, it may be that the majority of cases in the US are from pregnancy outside of wedlock.[citation needed] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.167.36.43 (talk) 10:32, 26 January 2014 (UTC) What is this supposed to be? This is not in any way part of Google Translate, first off Google Translate would never in a million tries get paragraphs, let alone sentences so accurate and grammatically correct. You are confusing Google Translate, which translates one language to another, like German to English or French to Spanish etc. with a dictionary which give a definition as in SINGLE PARENT: A single parent (or solo parent) is a parent, not living with a spouse or partner, who has most....... This entire section should have been removed the day it was placed here. 2602:306:CF5B:6C80:6CBB:6EC6:D94D:14EF (talk) 19:02, 8 October 2014 (UTC)DOC OCK

    Original research in Translation Methodology section?

    In reviewing the references in the Translation Methodology section, I found three that point to actual example sentences at translate.google.com along with a lot of discussion that seems to be in violation of WP:NOR. At the moment these are references 33 through 35 and the accompanying discussion, as follows:

    • 33. Google Translation mixes up "tu" and plural or polite "vous"
    • 34. The meaning of the English translation is the inverse of the Russian sentence ...
    • 35. ... but the English to Russian translation is correct

    I don't want to blank out half the section before seeing what the consensus is. What do you all think? Scyth (talk) 03:35, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

    the two categories of tiles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.252.0.85 (talk) 13:29, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

    Hmong

    Which dialect of hmong is there?--Kaiyr (talk) 18:39, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

    design

    Where can I see the list of languages that are now in the design?--Kaiyr (talk) 09:57, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

    ada seorang wanita bernama clara,ia hoby karate. suatu hari ia bersama suaminya makan malam di sebuah restoran. setelah selesai makan malam, mereka kembali ke rumah. terkejutlah mereka di depan pintu karena seorang pencuri didalam rumah. kemudian si pencuri itu melarikan diri dan di kejar oleh clara. dengan berani clara melawan pencuri sampai ia menyerah lalu datanglah polisi dan menangkap pencuri tersebut dan akhirnya ia di penjarakan. dan clara pun mendapat penghargaan dari polisi atas keberaniannya. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.249.207.64 (talk) 06:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

    Amharic and Assamese

    Does anyone know why Amharic and Assamese are still on the list of supported languages (June 2015) but yet I haven't found that information anywhere else? -- PK2 (talk) 23:13, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

    List of supported languages

    Hey folks,

    Why does Google Translate's article's list of supported languages show the languages by stage rather than by name and can we please show them by name instead or at least show them in both ways? -- PK2 (talk) 21:53, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

    Languages not yet supported by Google Translate

    Why do some people keep adding languages that aren't on the Google Translate Community page yet on the list of languages not yet supported languages by Google Translate and can someone please put a stop to this and prevent this from happening again? -- PK2 (talk) 00:42, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

    give me the book — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taloby (talk • contribs) 15:57, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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    Languages in development

    Why is Chinese not called Mandarin when they are about to create Cantonese? It confuses people and makes them believe Cantonese is not Chinese, thus promoting separatism. And will the Cantonese be in simplified or traditional? Of course, Wikipedia can't be held responsible for how Google names things, but without explanations this article is already enough to mislead people. --2.245.145.148 (talk) 18:56, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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    description value '1 Haftal?k Gold Üyelik' is over the max length — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.54.226.237 (talk) 18:54, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

    Supported languages history: Subject to deletion?

    Hi!

    So I took a look at the history of the supported languages. Except for a few instances of sourced info, the list is unsourced. As per the verifiability policy, we need sources for all that information. My suggestion may be a little drastic, so I welcome input, but I suggest deleting the history. Thoughts? LocalNet (talk) 17:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

    Going to assume silence means consensus and remove the history. LocalNet (talk) 09:34, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

    No, don't do that, what's wrong with You? The2016 (talk) 16:19, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

    Hi! Thank you for writing here. There is nothing wrong with me, but I raised a serious issue about verifiability. What are your thoughts on that? LocalNet (talk) 07:10, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
    I agree with the removal of this list. In addition to verifiability/WP:OR, it has WP:IINFO issues, as it's not clear what encyclopedic value these details provide. We would need not only sources, but sources which provide substantial context. Grayfell (talk) 07:15, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
    My thoughts exactly, so I'm glad to see someone else understand the issues with the list. :) LocalNet (talk) 07:20, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

    Supported languages & languages in development

    Where do you people get the sources for the supported languages bad languages in development? I'd like to know because I want to watch and wait for new supported languages and new languages in development, thanks!

    -The2016 The2016 (talk) 09:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

    I don't know, and I doubt sources exist for that specific info. As per talk page discussion right above this one, though, even if we did have sources, there would be questions about what encyclopedic value and substantial context the info would offer. LocalNet (talk) 09:50, 20 January 2017 (UTC)


    @The2016 , LocalNet : I have found [here an official list of languages] for semi-public GNMT API access. Zezen (talk) 20:28, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

    Sorry, but it's been a while since I've been on this article/talk page. I have no idea what this means. Could you provide additional details so I can understand the context? LocalNet (talk) 20:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

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    "Open-source licenses and components"

    Hi everybody! Is there a specific reason why "Open-source licenses and components" is notable information? It seems to just be a list. Is this something that's important for a translation service? If so, it should be explained. I'm tempted to remove it, but I wanted to hear if anybody knows more about it than I do. LocalNet (talk) 18:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

    No response. Going to assume silence means consensus. LocalNet (talk) 15:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

    Comment 2

    What's the meaning? Wa san last month mu... tara keni dakal obra keni at mura mu keni — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.158.225.8 (talk) 11:44, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

    Hi there. Please go to the actual Google Translate website to find the answer. Wikipedia does not provide translations, only explains the service. LocalNet (talk) 12:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

    Seeking consensus for talk page archives

    Hi everybody! As per the instructions for the Lowercase sigmabot III archive bot, I should establish a consensus here on the talk page before setting up automatic archiving. Any comments? If no replies, I will set it up in a few days. LocalNet (talk) 12:17, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

    Compare translations

    I would appreciate, if there could be mentions about translation comparing systems like http://www.multilang.space/ and many others. Automatic translation is rocking today, so it would be great to have list of tools that easily allow to compare string translations on a single page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blazinec (talk • contribs) 10:47, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

    Burmese not supported

    I checked the Google Translate page for a new list, hoping they had added more in the past year, but found out that Burmese is not supported. I tried to edit this, but there was no edit button on the article page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmazanec1 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

    Semi-protected edit request on 22 July 2018

    185.171.61.29 (talk) 17:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
     Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Danski454 (talk) 21:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

    Semi-protected edit request on 28 September 2018

    96.9.90.36 (talk) 06:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
     Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Hhkohh (talk) 13:37, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

    Semi-protected edit request on 26 October 2018

    49.32.70.52 (talk) 18:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

    Vocal speech and Optical Character Recognition

    This and this video, between possible others, explain how Google Translate interacts with microphone or the phone camera, as a tool for Vocal Speech Recognition or for Optical Character Recognition. It needs some simple settings of the app (related to the users'privacy too). Those features can easily improve the life of many people, and can be hopefully integrated in the Wikipedia's article in order to make it better more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.38.236.241 (talk) 21:41, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

    Semi-protected edit request on 6 March 2019

    93.197.159.229 (talk) 15:29, 6 March 2019 (UTC)Google Translate ist eine "Firma" Googles und wird als Übersetzer in alle Sprachen genutzt.Es gibt eine extra Funktion die die Worte vorlesen lässt außerdem dazu. Es gibt Google Translate sowohl als kostenfreie App als auch im Internet.93.197.159.229 (talk) 15:29, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
     Note: Translation (courtesy of Google Translate, ironically): Google Translate is a "company" Google and is used as a translator in all languages. There is an extra feature that makes the words read aloud as well. There is Google Translate both as a free app and on the internet.
     Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 16:23, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

    The History of Spanish language in Spain

    The inhabitants of this region, an area later referred to by scholars as Hispania, started learning Latin from the romans. The combination of the Celtic language and Latin form romans. The combination of Celtic language and Latin evolved into what is referred to by many as vulgar Latin. Vulgar Latin was an adapted form of the Latin that uses phrases and words, there were different from traditional Latin. ..... To continue go to the link listed below

    https://www.trustedtranslations.com/spanish-language/history-of-spanish.asp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.5.172.107 (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

    The addition of languages not yet supported by Google Translate under the 'Supported languages' section and its 'History' sub-section

    Why do some people keep adding languages that aren't yet supported by Google Translate under the 'Supported languages' section and its 'History' sub-section, even though I've already added a hidden message under that section reminding people not to add any languages that aren't yet on the Google Translate homepage, and even though I've had to revert over 8 edits by certain users including Juansantos123, Glennbyrnes7, and Roshan shrivastav, and certain IP addresses in the past 2 weeks alone, some of which date back to early September by 5 months, and can someone please put a stop to this and prevent this from happening again? -- PK2 (talk) 19:52, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

    Couldn't find some languages on google list

    The article uses this official list as a source, yet names the following languages as supported: Abaza, Crimean Tatar, Kabardian. Karachay, Nogai. Maybe another source is needed to support these languages inclusion. Uziel302 (talk) 17:32, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

    Harold Gilchrist?

    The section on Neural Machine Translation mentions "a research team at Google led by the software engineer Harold Gilchrist...". I worked on Google Translate at the time in question and have never heard of such a person. I can't find any source that mentions him, except for news articles that look like they probably copied text from this article. I recommend deleting the reference to this person. I won't do it myself because of conflict of interest. 67.188.26.87 (talk) 00:34, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

    Names of the languages in development

    Hello @PK2: I don't know why you reverted my edits on the languages in development section?! I updated the list according to the newest list of languages of the Google Translate community. It's better to keep the names as they have written in the Google Translate community. Serchia (talk) 18:13, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

    @Serchia: I reverted your edits on the 'languages in development' section because I prefer the language names as they're written on Wikipedia. -- PK2 (talk) 00:24, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

    Semi-protected edit request on 5 April 2021

    The new site is translate.google.com 78.100.222.182 (talk) 04:08, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

     Already done This appears to be old news. No change required. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 04:35, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

    Languages in development and languages in beta phase

    I think the "languages in development" section needs to be divided as some of those languages ​​also have a new beta phase as well, for example Kurdish (Sorani) and Tigrinya. Joanmp14 (talk) 15:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

    I agree with you. Serchia (talk) 20:23, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

    The "hidden" Community languages

    Hello! I am writing here, because I think there is an interesting topic regarding GT Community.

    Basically, if you are able to manipulate the source code[1], you would be able to access pages for three languages.

    First is Rundi, second - Balinese, and the last is Seselwa Creole. All of the pages are for translations to English, not from English.

    Code for each is respectively: "rn", "ban" and "crs".

    All of the language are available as Google account's languages and, for a time, the languages from your account would be added to the Community list. So it was the way I discovered them in the first place.

    It doesn't seem to work now, however.

    I'm here to discuss, since it might be important, but I think it needs to be properly documented first. And it's especially hard, since Community requires a Google login.

    PorazonyCreeper (talk) 15:56, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

    Bengali voice

    Hello, I'd like to discuss about a section about voices on a page[2]:

    for Bengali, a male Bangladeshi accent is used, except in India, where a special female Indian Bengali accent is used instead.

    The inspection shows, however, that both Indian[3] and Bangladeshi[4] domains use the female voice.

    Either the information is dated or plain wrong, although I think is just dated.

    I, unfortunately for the change's sake, have an account not old enough to edit the page, as it is semi-protected. For this, I ask the community.

    Cheers, PorazonyCreeper (talk) 16:06, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

    Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

    This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 October 2018 and 5 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Eunsun041299.

    Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

    Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

    This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2019 and 11 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cducree.

    Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

    Javanese and Sundanese voices

    Back when the Hebrew voice was first added, I noticed that Javanese and Sundanese had voices as well. So the bit where it says "Speech program launched in Hebrew." should be changed to say "Speech program launched in Hebrew, Javanese, and Sundanese."

    ConnerMiner (talk) 12:24, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

    Javanese and Sundanese voices have been for longer than the Hebrew one - the former ones have been since at least 2020. PorazonyCreeper (talk) 12:34, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

    133 languages is not accurate

    its supposed to be 109 languages. Not sure if beta languages were confused or something but its wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.203.100 (talk) 10:44, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

    These languages are now added to google translate Eray08yigit (talk) 14:25, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

    49th stage section

    Northern Sotho is listed in Google Translate as "Sepedi", please correct it in the article in "49th stage" section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate#Supported_languages there is listed Sepedi, but in the History section, 49th stage (launched May 2022), Nothern Sotho is listed as added language, but it's the same language. 83.30.149.11 (talk) 12:21, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

     Fixed. InfiniteNexus (talk) 02:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

    Translation of More

    Hi I'm Ganesh Sadashiv Chokale from India, Maharashtra I want suggest that in Google translation we can only translate the words or sentence or on paragraph, In this, if we can translate the full of PDF like a English topic any PDF that we can convert in Hindi PDF. It can more helpful for the students to get direct translation of topic in a PDF 2409:4042:201E:DE09:9EF7:8FED:1ED2:1220 (talk) 20:20, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

    Not sure what you mean. — kashmīrī TALK 20:28, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

    shouldn't we order the supported languages

    the same way google translate itself orders them? It would seem logical to do so. Masterball2 (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

    What does complementary mean?

    What does complementary mean in "Google Translate is a complementary translation service developed by Google in April 2006."?Italic S C Cheese (talk) 08:23, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

    I'm going to assume it means full-featured. Open to better wording, since I don't think it's in the source (could be wrong). InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:02, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
    I've changed it to "web-based free-to-user". S C Cheese (talk) 11:53, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

    RfC on 9to5Google as a source

    There is an RfC at WP:RSN on reliability of 9to5Google as a source.[1] Only 3 opinions have been given in about 19 days. More would be appreciated. -- Yae4 (talk) 15:28, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

    Transformers

    added info about transformers.

    I think its still the latest hotness and is still the technology that google uses. Don't necessarily know if we should attempt to add much more info about it? If anyone is a real subject-matter expert, please do, though knowing google, they'll probably replace that in a few years too. User:Sawerchessread (talk) 01:43, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

    On invention of universal language

    The following text:

    > and the system did not invent its own universal language, but uses "the commonality found in between many languages".

    In the Neural machine translation section is only supported by a self-published article (a Medium blog post, to be precise), which itself offers no supporting evidence for its claims. There seem to be a number of non-self-published sources which claim the exact opposite of this text.

    I think this text should be removed if a better source cannot be found, as there are a number of other published sources which claim the opposite of this. Goats Go Moo (talk) 17:22, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

    UX Design

    Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves understanding users, challenging assumptions, and redefining problems to identify alternative strategies and solutions. It's iterative and user-centric, often involving the following steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. 2405:201:2018:D07A:B0CA:ADC:3A02:4E01 (talk) 13:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

    Languages in development

    Languages in development should be put back. It is important to know what languages will be coming through. 24.108.18.81 (talk) 04:29, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

    -- I think there should be no issue putting back the language in development. Based on this research paper(https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.03983.pdf) and secondary sources (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-building-a-1000-language-ai-model-to-beat-chatgpt/articleshow/98474049.cms). Rocky 734 (talk) 02:48, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
    @Star Garnet:, can you bring back the Languages in development section with modernistic tabular form :-) . Rocky 734 (talk) 03:03, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
    So sorry about that! I hadn't intended to delete that subsection; I even updated it before table-izing the main section. If anyone wants to suggest info that would be better-served by a table vs. a list, I'd be happy to convert it. (I don't think there's any RS way to source how long a language has been in development?) Star Garnet (talk) 03:17, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
    Googie 119.13.62.54 (talk) 21:08, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
    Small 119.13.62.54 (talk) 21:09, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
    Sorry for the late reply, Thanks @Star Garnet for bringing back the Languages in development section.
    >any RS way to source how long a language has been in development?
    I don't know but shall try my best to find out the reliable source. I will update here, If I will get any. Rocky 734 (talk) 14:29, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
    Hello 2600:1702:3380:AE00:3CE1:ECD2:6FD:AE81 (talk) 02:00, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
    I. Love you 209.64.129.151 (talk) 19:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

    I think this section should be removed now that Google has phased out the Contribute feature. We can no longer tell which languages are in development. Serchia (talk) 18:20, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

    You're right, but we should at least wait for I/O (May 14), when Google generally announces new languages for Translate. Joseph (talk) 18:16, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
    Is there evidence that it will annouce at May 14, 2024? 216.186.51.109 (talk) 16:06, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
    Yeah where is the evidence 134.204.2.226 (talk) 00:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
    You lied to me! You didn't prove any evidence and there wasn't any new languages! 64.124.92.43 (talk) 03:33, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    I said "generally". Joseph (talk) 07:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    Google didnt announce anything this year. I guess we can delete this section since we dont have any reference. Joseph (talk) 07:11, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    See, I told you need evidence! 216.186.51.108 (talk) 19:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
    Actually, they did announce the languages. It was on June 27, 2024. The evidence for this is here: https://blog.google/products/translate/google-translate-new-languages-2024/?utm_source=kw-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06262024&utm_content=cta Who is Amire80 (talk) 14:32, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

    They did not add Chukchi as one of the languages.

    Those news reports either made a mistake or lied about that. Please do fix. 2A06:63C1:9904:E900:BC05:DF71:C6A0:937B (talk) 10:35, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

    There is also a possibility it might have been confused with Chuukese, which I forgot to acknowledge here. 2A06:63C1:9904:E900:BC05:DF71:C6A0:937B (talk) 10:37, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

    Article reads as a marketing article.

    Article reads as a marketing article and is somewhat ambiguous and deceptive, although I find it (Google translate) interesting. 2001:999:608:614F:ED73:DA08:2E7C:67D1 (talk) 15:01, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

    1. ^ https://translate.google.com/contribute
    2. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate#Features
    3. ^ https://translate.google.co.in/?sl=bn&tl=en&text=%E0%A6%93%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%20&op=translate
    4. ^ https://translate.google.com.bd/?sl=auto&tl=bn&text=%E0%A6%93%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%20&op=translate
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