![]() ![]() This is probably one of the most common uses of machine translation. So, below are a few situations where I believe it’s okay to reach for that Google Translate app (for a short amount of time!) – and a couple of situations where you really should pick up the phone instead and call in the professionals. Most, if not all, translators believe that human translation will always be needed in some situations – the hard part is reminding businesses and individuals of this fact, when there are so many translation programs available to choose from online – often for free. A recent poll on the translation community website ProZ suggested that over half of translators were not concerned at all, and only a quarter were ‘somewhat concerned’. With the magic of deep learning technology, computers are able to “learn” more and in theory, improve the quality of their output the more it is used.Īre translators worried that their jobs are going to be taken over by robots? Mostly, no. Not only can we download apps where we can just type in words and instantly get a result in another language, but you can take photos of signs and get a translation straight away, and even instantly translate voice and video calls with the likes of Skype Translator. ![]() Google Translate, and other machine translation (MT) programs, have come along in leaps and bounds in the last few years. ![]()
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