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Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
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
Das sind die besten Apps, um Sprachen zu lernen
(These are the best apps to learn languages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone, translation
Summary | Babbel, Duolingo, and Busuu are currently among the most popular language learning apps. They are great for starters because all that is needed is a smartphone and some free time here and there, for instance while waiting for the bus. In order to learn a foreign language fluently, however, one needs to practice with native speakers.
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone and using a language learning app.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Der Computer lernt Mundart
(The computer learns Swiss German)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, translation
Summary | The SBB app should be updated so the users can just speak their destinations and they will verbally receive the transport information. The developers say that the voice recognition software should be able to understand most dialects of Swiss German despite never having been enhanced with a Swiss German vocabulary. Lots of it is similar enough to German so that the software can detect the connection or it otherwise reports words that it does not understand so that they can be manually entered. Users should be pleased because it is just nicer when one does not have to speak Standard German to one's smartphone.
Image Description | Image of a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
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