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• @thefox Nick Fox on x

  Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and... the launch of a top-requested feature! 🎂 One of the toughest things about speaking a new language is getting the nuances of pronunciation just right. Now, you can get instant feedback with “pronunciation practice,” which uses AI [vi…

• @google @google on x

  3️⃣ Translate supports 95% of the world's population and is available in nearly 250 languages. 4️⃣ More than 1 billion users translate around 1 trillion words every month using Translate — enough text to keep someone reading out loud 24/7 for the next 12,000 years. [video]

• @ymatias Yossi Matias on x

  Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate: how an early experiment became a global utility for a billion people. This journey reflects a strategic, decades-long progression from statistical ML to the Gemini era 🧵 [image]

• @google @google on x

  🧵 To celebrate Google Translate turning 20, we're sharing 20 tips, features and fun facts you may not know about Translate. 1️⃣ Google Translate was one of the initial Google Research experiments that kickstarted our machine learning work. 2️⃣ The most common phrase on Google [im…

• @jeffdean Jeff Dean on x

  Google Translate is turning 20! 🎉. There are 20 fun facts and tips in the thread below. Translate is one of my favorite Google products because it brings us all closer together! I've been involved with a couple of things over the years. The first was our deployment of the

• @ymatias Yossi Matias on x

  In 2006, the development began at Google Research with statistical machine learning. By 2016, a massive shift to neural networks enabled translation to go beyond literal word-for-word definitions. This proved that deep learning could work at a global scale to be truly helpful 🤖

• @google @google on x

  5️⃣ We just launched one of our most requested features: pronunciation practice, which uses AI to analyze your speech and provide instant feedback on your delivery. Now available in the Translate app on Android in the U.S and India, starting with English, Spanish and Hindi. [vide…

• @sabrinaa_ortiz Sabrina Ortiz on x

  NEW: To commemorate Google Translate's 20-year anniversary, the company launched pronunciation practice, which uses AI to analyze your speech and give you instant feedback. The feature is now available in the US and Infia in English, Spanish and Hindi. Google says it is one of

• @rmstein Robby Stein on x

  Happy 20th anniversary Google Translate! 🌍 It's incredible to see the scale of this product: 1 billion users now translate around 1 trillion words every single month. To celebrate, we're launching one of our most requested features: pronunciation practice. Translate will give [vi…