Introduction and Review

If you are eager to find a powerful translation software that can translate all forms of text, there’s no better app than Google Translate which you should never miss it. Google Translate, offered by Google, is an application designed to provide users with a multilingual neural machine translation service, with which they can translate various forms of text, photos, real-time conversations and other forms of language into 133 other languages without the slightest effort, online or offline.

Have you ever suffered from the expensive fees of professional translation agencies or the low translation quality of machine translation applications in the market that cannot accurately translate what you want? There is no need for you to worry about it anymore, as Google Translate will satisfy everything you want. With the primary goal of fast, accurate and smooth translation results, Google Translate adopts a neural machine translation system. Different from other rigid machine translation applications that simply replace each word in the source language with a corresponding word in the target language, the neural machine translation engine used by Google Translate takes each snippet-like short sentence or phrase in the source language as a block unit and puts it into its vast database to widely compare the translated text of similar semantics and ultimately filter out the best match. In other words, the text that the user wants to translate is considered in Google's database in a complete comparison, instead of being translated word by word in isolation and rigidly, ensuring higher accuracy and complete contextual translation results.

In addition to a powerful translation engine with intelligent learning, Google Translate also supports users who need to translate when using other applications by simply tapping on the source language and then clicking on the Google Translate floating window to understand the meaning of the text effortlessly.

What’s more, even if you don't have an Internet connection, you can still use the app to translate between as many as 59 languages, which means that whether you’re stuck on a plane or need to understand the local language in a foreign country, Google Translate is always there for you.

What makes Google Translate stand out from other translation apps is that users can snap and translate anywhere in their lives in any foreign language, with its instant camera translation feature and photo import translation feature. It is even more user-friendly that its powerful dialogue translation function can support the instant translation of up to 70 bilingual conversations, making translating to the most convenient extent.

Updates

In its latest update of version 6.49 on December 5th, 2022, developers exterminated some bugs and improved the users’ experience. According to the update history, Google Translate has been updated basically 2 to 3 times a month to fix bugs newly appeared. However, there is no specific mention of what exactly has been fixed. The earliest update would date back to version 6.26.0 launched on November 17th, 2021.

Features

1. Google Translate uses a neural machine translation engine and is backed by the largest translation database on the market, which ensures the accuracy and consistency of the translation to the greatest extent.

2. Google Translate is so fast that as soon as the user inputs the source language in the translation box, the target language will be generated instantly.

3. Google Translate allows users to download the target language library they are likely to use in advance, so that they can use it offline whenever and wherever they are.

4. Users can asterisk the same words, phrases or sentences that need to be translated frequently and save them in their vocabulary book so that they can be used more efficiently in the future.

5. Google Translate’s conversation translation function and photo translation function make people’s life more convenient and efficient.