Google Translate already uses Artificial Intelligence without Internet connection
Table of contents:
- An (almost) human translator and no Internet connection required
- How to enable offline translation in Google Translate
One of the best uses that we can give our mobile phone is to use it as an effective translator for languages we don't know. If we travel, Google Translate is presented as the best friend we can have. And now much more, thanks to the appearance, for example, of Google Lens, with which we can translate posters, advertisements, billboards, notices... that are in another language, located in exotic countries. Perhaps we are not going to obtain a polished and perfect translation, but one that is sufficient with which to know what the message is trying to tell us.This, in countries with another alphabet such as Russia or Japan, is revealed to us as something essential.
An (almost) human translator and no Internet connection required
We are going to talk about Artificial Intelligence now, in relation to Google Translate. Google's own official news blog publishes information about it today. Now, we can have translations in multiple languages without having to be connected to the Internet. Something that is presented as extremely useful, since not all of us can have data plans in all the countries to which we travel. And precisely, those countries with different alphabets are not usually included in the roaming of the operators.
Two years ago, Google implemented neural machine translation into its Translate.What does this mean? The best way to translate a text, for its complete understanding, is to translate the entire text, not word by word or by sentence. This must take into account the language into which it is translated, and a literal translation can become unintelligible, no matter how much it is in our own language. In other words, the neural translation imitates the translation that a bilingual Spanish could do from English, for example. It is impossible for us to extract useful information from a literally translated text and that is precisely what Google's Artificial Intelligence is fighting against. Well, now we can do it without being connected to the Internet.
If you don't have Internet access, don't have data plans, or simply don't want to use them, you can now translate into 59 different languages. Of course, make sure to download, in advance, the language packs that you are interested in having offline on the phone.According to Google's own blog, each package can be about 35 or 40 MB in size so they won't take up too much space on your device.
How to enable offline translation in Google Translate
To configure offline translation, just open the Google Translate application and go to the settings menu. You will find it on the side, sliding your finger from left to right, in the section 'Offline translation' Here you will find the list of languages that you can download to translate when do not have data You just have to select the one you want and press the arrow and press 'Download'. In that same window you are informed of the weight of the file to download.
Google Translate also benefits from the continuous use that we give it, users themselves reporting bugs they see in the application, as well as providing their own translations on a page that Google has enabled to voluntary jobs.All this, together with the Artificial Intelligence available to the translator, make it become a much more precise and useful utility for all of us who do not know a language every day.
