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Translate has been around as long as I can remember. It works exactly how I remember translate.altavista.com working-except I can’t remember whether alta vista
by ianai 7y ago
Translate has been around as long as I can remember. It works exactly how I remember translate.altavista.com working-except I can’t remember whether alta vista could detect language.
- topmonk 7y agoThe Google Translate android app has a magic camera that recognizes translates and replaces the text in real time in the video feed. That's pretty cool.
- Crosseye_Jack 7y agoSo does Google Translate on iPhone. But that was originally Word Lens, then google brought them and for a time the lens app became free then they added the functionality to the Google Translate app.
- rerx 7y agoThere has been a staggering amount of innovation in machine translation. Google has some of the leading groups in research for neural machine translation and they put a lot of it into production. Saying that it works just like Altavista's Bablefish of yore is ridiculous, at least for the European languages I am familiar with. Translation quality as offered by all major services is leagues ahead compared to the state of, say, three years ago. (Disclaimer: I work on a competitor to Google Translate)
- ianai 7y agoI meant UI...copy paste text on left side and output on right side. Of course there’s been innovation underneath. My comment wouldn't be two sentences if I had any knowledge about how alta vista or google translate work(ed) underneath.