Posted by: Grant Copeland Posted date: September 14, 2012 In: Tech
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has added a 65th language to Google Translate.
It has been reported that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has added its 65th language to Google Translate.
‘Lao’ or ‘Loation’ is spoken in Laos, Thailand, the U.S., France, Canada, China, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina.
In Laos, it is the official language.
Minqi Jiang , Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Translate Associate Product Manager, said that, “The Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Translate team is constantly working to improve automatic translations, both for languages that have been available for some time, and for currently unavailable languages whose translation quality have yet to meet our launch standards.
This work includes collecting new data from which our system can learn and grow smarter; changing the algorithms behind Google Translate; and improving the grammaticality of translations. There are many languages we work on that are not there yet but that we hope to launch in the future.
Support for Lao meets our launch standards, but translation quality is at the lower end compared to that of other languages we offer. We therefore designate Lao with an “alpha” status until we can make further improvements. While our Lao translations will be usable in some situations, like providing an English reader with the gist of an article written in Lao, they will fail in other situations where more precise translations are needed. We need your feedback in order to improve the quality of Lao translations”.
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