Will the smartphone put an end to the myth of the Tower of Babel, inventing a kind of Esperanto 2.0 that breaks the silence of the Tower of Babel? language barriers ? There's still a long way to go, but new technology specialists are investing to make it easier for travellers to communicate, whether they're talking business or scuba diving. Google has unveiled a new version of Google Translate on 15 November. Far from being just another update, this development of the tool is intended to be revolutionary: "With this update, Google Translate improves more in a single leap than we've seen in the last ten years combined"say those in charge of the project, who even go so far as to say that ". this is just the beginning" ...
In a press release entitledFound in translation"The Cupertino-based giant is presenting its new approach. CalledNeural Machine Translation"This development moves from a word-by-word translation to a more global approach, by whole sentences, to gain in relevance. Adjustments are thus integrated "to come closer to human speech, with correct grammar"explains Google on its blog. The result is all the more promising in that Google Translate will be based on machine learning, progressing over time by learning from its mistakes and feeding off the experience it has acquired through translations and corrections.
For the moment, the new version of the tool is available in eight languages, including FrenchGoogle Translate is now also available for German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish, and translations into and from English have been significantly improved. Google Translate will cover the native language of almost a third of the world's population and 35% of all requests submitted to the translation tool. But the ambition obviously goes beyond this circle of privileged idioms: Google would like to extend its update to all 103 languages offered by Google Translate.
