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Google Translate
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URL translate.google.com
Type of site Machine translation
Registration No
Owner Google
Created by Google
Current status Active
Google Translate is a free statistical machine translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language.
The service was introduced in April 28, 2006 for the Arabic language. Prior to October 2007, for languages other than Arabic, Chinese and Russian, Google used a SYSTRAN based translator which is used by other translation services such as Babel Fish, AOL, and Yahoo.
On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the Google Translate API had been deprecated and that it would cease functioning on December 1, 2011 "due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse." The shutting down of the API, which is used by a number of websites, has led to criticism of Google and developers questioning the viability of using Google APIs in their products.
On June 3, 2011, Google announced that they were canceling their plan to terminate the Translate API due to public pressure. In the same announcement, Google said that they will release a paid version of the Translate API.

Features and limitations

The service limits the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, that will be translated. It is also possible to enter searches in a source language that are first translated to a destination language allowing you to browse and interpret results from the selected destination language in the source language. For some languages, users are asked for alternate translations such as for technical terms, to be included for future updates to the translation process. Text in a foreign language can be typed, and if "Detect Language" is selected, it will not only detect the language but also translate it into English by default.
Google Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. While it can help the reader to understand the general content of a foreign language text, it does not always deliver accurate translations. Some languages produce better results than others. As of 2010, French to English translation is very good; however, rule-based machine translations perform better if the text to be translated is shorter; this effect is particularly evident in Chinese to English translations.
Texts written in the Greek, Devanagari, Cyrillic and Arabic scripts can be transliterated automatically from phonetic equivalents written in the Latin alphabet.

Browser integration

A number of Firefox extensions exist for Google services, and likewise for Google Translate, which allow right-click command access to the translation service.
An extension for Google's Chrome browser also exists;in February 2010, Google translate was integrated into the standard Google Chrome browser for automatic webpage translation.

Android version

Created by Google Inc. Google translate available as free downloadable application for Android OS users. The first version was launched in January 2010. It works simply like the browser version. Google translation for Android contains two main options: "SMS translation" and "History". The current version also supports Conversation Mode when translating between English and Spanish (in alpha testing). This is a new interface within Google Translate that allows to communicate fluidly with a nearby person in another language. The application supports 53 languages and voice input for 15 languages. It is available for devices running Android 2.1 and above and can be downloaded by searching for “Google Translate” in Android Market. It was first released in January 2010, with an improved version available on January 12, 2011.
Latest version: 2.0.0 build 42

iOS version

Google Translate iOS 
 
In August 2008, Google launched a Google Translate HTML5 web application for iOS for iPhone and iPod touch users. The official iOS app for Google Translate was released February 8, 2011. It accepts voice input for 15 languages and allows translation of a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. Translations can be spoken out loud in 23 different languages.

Language options

(by chronological order of introduction)
  • 1st stage
  • English to French
  • English to German
  • English to Spanish
      
  • French to English
  • German to English
  • Spanish to English
  • 2nd stage
  • English to Portuguese
  • English to Dutch
  • Portuguese to English
  • Dutch to English
  • 3rd stage
  • English to Italian
  • Italian to English
  • 4th stage
  • English to Chinese (Simplified)
  • English to Japanese
  • English to Korean
      
  • Chinese (Simplified) to English
  • Japanese to English
  • Korean to English
  • 5th stage (launched April 2006)
  • English to Arabic
  • Arabic to English
  • 6th stage (launched December 2006)
  • English to Russian
  • Russian to English
  • 7th stage (launched February 2007)
  • English to Chinese (Traditional)
  • Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)
      
  • Chinese (Traditional) to English
  • Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)
  • 8th stage (launched October 2007)
    • all 25 language pairs use Google's machine translation system
  • 9th stage
  • English to Hindi
  • Hindi to English
  • 10th stage (as of this stage, translation can be done between any two languages, going through English, if needed) (launched May 2008)
  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
      
  • Finnish
  • Greek
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
      
  • Romanian
  • Swedish
  • 11th stage (launched September 25, 2008)
  • Catalan
  • Filipino
  • Hebrew
      
  • Indonesian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
      
  • Serbian
  • Slovak
  • Slovene
      
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese
  • 12th stage (launched January 30, 2009)
  • Albanian
  • Estonian
  • Galician
        
  • Hungarian
  • Maltese
  • Thai
        
  • Turkish
  • 13th stage (launched June 19, 2009)
  • Persian
  • 14th stage (launched August 24, 2009)
  • Afrikaans
  • Belarusian
  • Icelandic
        
  • Irish
  • Macedonian
  • Malay
        
  • Swahili
  • Welsh
  • Yiddish
        
  • 15th stage (launched November 19, 2009)
    • The Beta stage is finished. Users can now choose to have the romanization written for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hindi and Thai. For translations from Arabic, Persian and Hindi, the user can enter a Latin transliteration of the text and the text will be translated to the native script for these languages as the user is writing. The text can now be read by a text-to-speech program in English, Italian, French and German
  • 16th stage (launched January 30, 2010)
    • Haitian Creole
  • 17th stage (launched April 2010)
    • Speech program launched in Hindi and Spanish
  • 18th stage (launched May 5, 2010)
    • Speech program launched in Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh (based in eSpeak).
  • 19th stage (launched May 13, 2010)
  • Armenian
  • Azerbaijani
        
  • Basque
  • Georgian
        
  • Urdu
  • 20th stage (launched June 2010)
  • Provides romanization for Arabic.
  • 21st stage (launched September 2010)
  • Allows phonetic typing for Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Serbian and Urdu.
  • Latin
  • 22nd stage (launched December 2010)
    • Romanization of Arabic removed.
    • Spell check added.
    • Google replaced some languages' text-to-speech synthesizers from eSpeak's robot voice to native speaker's nature voice technologies made by SVOX(Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish). Also the old versions of French, German, Italian and Spanish. Latin uses the same synthesizer as Italian.
    • Speech program launched in Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.
  • 23rd stage (Launched January 2011)
    • Now you can choose different translations for a word.
  • 24th stage (Launched June 2011)
    • 5 new Indian languages (in alpha) and a transliterated input method
      • Bengali
      • Gujarati
      • Kannada
      • Tamil
      • Telugu
  • 25th stage (Launched July 2011)
    • Now you can rate the translations.

Translation methodology

Google Translate does not apply grammatical rules, since its algorithms are based on statistical analysis rather than traditional rule-based analysis. Indeed, the system's original creator, Franz Josef Och, has criticized the effectiveness of rule-based algorithms in favor of empirical approaches.It is based on a method called statistical machine translation, and more specifically, on research by Och who won the DARPA contest for speed machine translation in 2003. He is now the head of Google's machine translation group.
According to Och, a solid base for developing a usable statistical machine translation system for a new pair of languages from scratch, would consist in having a bilingual text corpus (or parallel collection) of more than a million words and two monolingual corpora of each more than a billion words. Statistical models from this data are then used to translate between those languages.
To acquire this huge amount of linguistic data, Google used United Nations documents.The UN typically publishes documents in all six official UN languages, which has produced a very large 6-language corpus.
Google representatives have been involved with domestic conferences in Japan where it has solicited bilingual data from researchers.

Translation mistakes and oddities

Because Google Translate uses statistical matching to translate rather than a dictionary/grammar rules approach, translated text can often include apparently nonsensical and obvious errors,often swapping common terms for similar but nonequivalent common terms in the other language,as well as inverting sentence meaning.


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கலைஞர் தொலைகாட்சி, ராஜ் டிவி, மற்றும் s.s மியூசிக் ஆகிய சேனல்களில்

இரவு 10:30 மணிக்கு தொடங்குகிறது அந்த நிகழ்ச்சி.

பாதி ரஜினி முகத்தையும், பாதி கமல் முகத்தையும் ஒன்று சேர்த்து காட்டுகிறார்கள்.
அந்நிகழ்ச்சியின் தொகுப்பாளர் கேள்வி கேட்கிறார். 'திரையில்
காட்டப்பட்டிருக்கிற இரு முன்னணி
நட்ச்சத்திரங்கள் யார்?' என்பதுதான் அது.
...
இது போதாது என்று இந்த இரு நடிகர்களும் பதினாறு வயதினிலே படத்தில் இணைந்து நடித்த
நடிகர்கள் என்ற க்ளூவை வேறு தருகிறார்.

உடனே, யாரோ ஒருவருக்கு லைன் (!) கிடைத்துவிட, அவர் 'கவுண்டமணியும்
செந்திலும்' என பதில்
சொல்கிறார்.ரஜினியையும், கமலையும் பார்ப்பதற்கு கவுண்டமணியும் செந்திலும் போலவா
இருக்கிறார்கள்? என்ன கூத்து இது?

தினமும் இரவு 10:30 மணிக்கு தொடங்கும் இந்த நிகழ்ச்சி நள்ளிரவு 12 மணிக்கு
முடிவடைகிறது. பரிசுத் தொகையோ ரூ.55,000. என்ன நிகழ்ச்சி இது? ஏன்
இவர்கள் இந்தப்பணத்தை
நமக்குத் தருவதாய் சொல்கிறார்கள்? உண்மையிலேயே கொடுக்கிறார்களா?
அவர்களின் நோக்கம் என்ன? இதன்
பின்புலம் என்ன? என்பதை விசாரித்தால் சில திடுக்கிடும் உண்மைகள் கிடைத்தன.

இந்த நிகழ்ச்சிகளில். திரையில் காட்டப்படும் உருவங்கள் இலகுவில்
கண்டுபிடிக்கக் கூடியதாகவும்,
உருவங்கள் குறித்து கேட்கப்படும் கேள்விகளும் மிக எளிதானதாகவுமே
அமைகின்றன. அதற்குக்
காரணம், பார்ப்பவர்கள் உடனே அதற்கான பதிலை தெரிவித்து பரிசைப் பெற்றுவிட
வேண்டும் என்ற
உந்துதலை ஏற்படுத்துவதுதான்.

திரையின் மூலையில் மின்னும் தொலைபேசி என், உண்மையில் தொலைபேசி எண் அல்ல.
அது ஒரு சர்வர்.
தமிழகம் முழுவதும் எத்தனை ஆயிரம் பேர் ஃபோன் செய்தாலும் அவர்களை
வெயிட்டிங் லிஸ்டில் காக்க
வைத்து கால் பேலன்சை அபகரித்துவிடும். ( ஒரு அழைப்புக்கு பத்து ரூபாய்)
ஒன்றரை மணிநேரம்
நடக்கும் இந்த ஏமாற்றுப் போட்டியில் உலகெல்லாம் உள்ள மக்கள், குறிப்பாக
தமிழர்களே ஏமாந்து
கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள்.

இந்த நிகழ்ச்சியிலிருந்து நாம் அறிய வேண்டிய உண்மைகள் சில:

1.இந்த நிகழ்ச்சியில் வெயிட்டிங் லிஸ்டில் இருப்பவர்கள்தான் பொதுமக்கள்.
பேசுபவர்கள் உண்மையில்
ஸ்டுடியோவில் வேலை செய்பவர்கள். பேசுபவரின் செல்போன் நம்பர், ஊர் பெயர் திரையில்
காட்டப்படுவது இல்லை. வேண்டுமென்றே தவறான பதிலை சொல்லிக்
கொண்டிருப்பதுதான் இவர்கள் பணி.

2. ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் கடைசியில் ஒரே ஒருவர் மூலமாக (அதுவும் ஸ்டுடியோ
ஆள்தான் ) நிகழ்ச்சி
முடியும் கடைசி நேரத்தில்தான் சரியான பதில் சொல்லப்படுகிறது.இதிலிருந்தே சேனல்கள்
திட்டமிட்டு ஏமாற்றுகின்றன என்பதை அறியலாம்.

3.கால் வெயிட்டிங்கிற்குப் பதில், நம்பர் பிசி என்று பதில் வந்தால் கூட
நமது பேலன்ஸ்
தப்பிக்கும். ஆனால், கால் வெயிட்டிங் ஆப்ஷனில் அனைவரின் பணத்தையும்

பறிப்பதுதான் இவர்களின் நோக்கம்.

4.நாம் நினைப்பது போல் இது நேரலை நிகழ்ச்சி அல்ல. இது முன்பே பதிவு
செய்யப்பட நிகழ்க்சி.
அதாவது பிணத்துக்கு அறுவை சிகிச்சை.

5.இதை தன்னுடைய சொந்த நிகழ்ச்சியாக தயாரிக்காமல், வேறு ஒரு நிறுவனத்திடம்

இந்த நிகழ்ச்சியை ஒப்படைத்துவிட்டு தப்பித்துக் கொள்கின்றன டி.வி. சேனல்கள்.

இவர்கள் அடிக்கும் கூட்டுக் கொள்ளைக்கு நாட்டின் அனைத்து தொலைத்தொடர்பு
நிறுவனங்களும் உடந்தை.

இதைப் படித்தபிறகாவது, இம்மாதிரியான நிகழ்ச்சிகளை பார்ப்பதைத்
தவிருங்கள். உங்களுக்குத்
தெரிந்தவர்களிடம் சொல்லுங்கள். நமது பர்சுகளை வேட்டையாடும் இந்த வேட்டை
நாய்களுக்கு வேட்டு
வையுங்கள்.

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Independence day SMS

7:52 PM    

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"VANDHEMATHARAM"
Adv
HAPPY
INDEPENDANCE DAY
Salute d nation...

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