Digital Discourse Database

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Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone

Viva la Instagram! Photo sharing app will automatically translate foreign-language posts automatically

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, translation
Summary | Instagram has announced an update that will allow its users to translate posts in foreign languages.
Image Description | Instagram logo next to a collage of the word "Hello" in different languages, two young women lying down and taking a selfie, screenshot of an Instagram post displaying the "see translation" option
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, selfie, smartphone

Facebook's new feature translates your post into different languages depending on who's reading it

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, translation
Summary | Facebook's latest update allows you to translate posts in foreign languages. You can also select the option "post in multiple languages" if you want your post to be seen in different languages.
Image Description | Screenshot of a post in English, French, and Spanish, photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the Facebook app
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone

Children's stories translated into emojis - can you guess which classic is which?

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | Emojis are becoming more and more popular. In order to see if people could decipher the emoji language, Sarah Walen said that "Book People" translated children's stories in emojis.
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