On-device AI will help you Google Translate when offline


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 17 Jun 2018

A tourist takes a selfie photograph as a man looks at his smartphone along the Thu Bon River in the old town of Hoi An, Qu?ng Nam Province, Vietnam, on Friday, April 18, 2018. With a fast-growing economy and a young population, Vietnam offers an attractive market for retailers. Its economy expanded 7.4 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year earlier, and a third of its population is aged 15 to 34. Photographer: James MacDonald/Bloomberg

Whether lost in Hong Kong's crowds or sitting in a Parisian café without any Internet, Google Translate's offline version can more accurately get your point across with on-device AI. 

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technology is what helps users make sense when trying to directly translate expressions and phrases from their native language to that of another. Previously only available on the online version, Google Translate this week announced that NMT is now able to run directly from users' devices, whether Android or iOS. 

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