How do you use Google Translate? how accurate is it?

By OWEN GOUGH ,News reprinted from https://www.express.co.uk/

When abroad, it is not uncommon for people to grab their phone and use Google Translate to help them communicate with locals. 

The app is a great way to quickly search a language and instantly translate text from almost every language in the world. 

Negating the need to learn an entirely new language, Google lets you search for the words you need to get by. 

Available on iOS and Android as well as on the Google website, Google Translate is a must-have travel companion.

www.veasoon.com already insert the google translate app, it's perfect for global buyers.

You can then continue to change between the two languages using the arrow key in the middle. For example, if you are translating from English to Spanish, you can click the arrows to change it from Spanish to English. 

You can use Google Translate with the camera or Microphone, translating images or audio too. 

Simply take a picture of the words you want to translate and Google will automatically translate the text in real time. However, this only works with 30 languages. 

Alternatively, tap the microphone icon to enable audio, letting you record locals speaking and have Google instantly translate it for you. 

How accurate is Google Translate? 

Despite Google being an incredibly intelligent and useful tool, it is not always as accurate as you might think. 

There is a particular nuance to speech that makes it difficult for technology to assume the meaning behind a sentence and translate it directly. 

According to Google’s test of accuracy, Google Translate has mixed reviews. 

Google had human raters evaluate translations on a scale of 0 to 6. For most of the world’s larger languages, Google Translate was given an average score of 5.43 out of 6. For example, English to Spanish, Google Translate was rated as 5.43, while Chinese to English was given a 4.3.

Overall, across all three languages, Google said its new tool is 60 percent more accurate than the old Google Translate tool, which used phrase-based machine translation, or PBMT. 

“With the previous PBMT model, when we translate a sentence from one language to another, we would translate one word or a phrase in the source sentence at a time, then re-order the words in the correct grammar of the target language,” said Quoc Le, a Google researcher who worked on the project. 

“The complication is language has a lot of ambiguity. In our new GNMT system, we treat a whole sentence as a unit, and translate [the words] in a group.”