What is Machine Translation?
Language services are very important to the world. The population of earth is linguistically diverse and would not be able to live peacefully without the help of language experts. But as the world advanced and we began handing computers more tasks, machine translation became common. Today, when people are traveling, they turn to their phones to get translation services. Even if they don’t have an app on their phone to help them understand the source language, they can use Google Assistant or Siri to get translations.
Multiple techniques are used by machines to figure out languages. In neural machine translation, learning techniques are employed to improve the performance of language apps and software. Google Translate moved to the Google neural machine translation technique in 2016. Since then, it has improved a lot. More language apps are using the technique these days so they can provide accurate language solutions to their users. This has made people think that we won’t need human translators in the future. However, Google’s app for iPhone and Android devices is only somewhat accurate with European languages. When it comes to Asian and African languages, the accuracy level drops significantly.