Yandex Translate Explained

Yandex Translate
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Commercial:Yes
Type:Neural machine translation
Registration:Optional
Language:98 languages; see below
Interface: English, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
Owner:Yandex
Launch Date:[1] [2]
Current Status:Active

Yandex Translate (Russian: Яндекс Переводчик|Yandeks Perevodchik) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of web pages into another language.

The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation,[3] developed by Yandex.[4] The system constructs the dictionary of single-word translations based on the analysis of millions of translated texts. In order to translate the text, the computer first compares it to a database of words. The computer then compares the text to the base language models, trying to determine the meaning of an expression in the context of the text.

In September 2017, Yandex.Translate switched to a hybrid approach incorporating both statistical machine translation and neural machine translation models.[5]

The translation page first appeared in 2009, utilizing PROMT, and was also built into Yandex Browser itself, to assist in translation for websites.

Supported languages

Immediately after the launch of the translator in beta mode in the spring of 2010, it was only available in three languages — English, Russian and Ukrainian, with a limit of 10,000 characters.

Yandex.Translate has some languages that are missing from Google Translate, such as Russia's national minority languages.

As of, translation is available in 99 languages:

  1. Afrikaans
      1. Albanian Amharic Arabic
  2. Armenian
  3. Azerbaijani
  4. Bashkir
  5. Basque
  6. Belarusian
  7. Bengali
  8. Bosnian
  9. Bulgarian
    1. Burmese Catalan
  10. Cebuano
  11. Chinese
  12. Chuvash
  13. Croatian
  14. Czech
  15. Danish
  16. Dutch
    1. Elvish (Sindarin) Emoji (Not a natural language)
  17. English
  18. Esperanto
  19. Estonian
  20. Finnish
  21. French
  22. Galician
  23. Georgian
  24. German
  25. Greek
  26. Gujarati
  27. Haitian Creole
  28. Hebrew
    1. Hill Mari Hindi
  29. Hungarian
  30. Icelandic
  31. Indonesian
  32. Irish
  33. Italian
  34. Japanese
  35. Javanese
  36. Kannada
  37. Kazakh (Cyrillic and Latin)
  38. Khmer
  39. Korean
      1. Kyrgyz Lao Latin
  40. Latvian
  41. Lithuanian
  42. Luxembourgish
  43. Macedonian
  44. Malagasy
  45. Malay
    1. Malayalam Maltese
  46. Māori
  47. Marathi
      1. Meadow Mari Mongolian Nepali
  48. Norwegian
  49. Ossetian
    1. Papiamento Persian
  50. Polish
  51. Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
  52. Punjabi
  53. Romanian
  54. Russian
  55. Scottish Gaelic
  56. Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin)
  57. Sinhala
  58. Slovak
  59. Slovenian
  60. Spanish
  61. Sundanese
  62. Swahili
  63. Swedish
  64. Tagalog
      1. Tajik Tamil Tatar
    1. Telugu Thai
  65. Turkish
    1. Udmurt Ukrainian
  66. Urdu
  67. Uzbek (Latin and Cyrillic)
  68. Vietnamese
  69. Welsh
      1. Xhosa Yakut Yiddish
  70. Zulu

The translation direction is determined automatically. It is possible to translate words, sentences, or web pages if needed. There is also the option to view both the translation and the original at the same time in a two-window view. In addition to machine translation, there is also an accessible and complete English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary.[6] There is an app for devices based on the iOS software,[7] Windows Phone and Android. You can listen to the pronunciation of the translation and the original text using a text to speech converter built in.

Translations of sentences and words can be stored to a "Favorites" section located below the input field.

Limitations

Yandex.Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. When the online service was first introduced, the head of Yandex.Translate, Alexei Baitin, stated that although machine translation cannot be compared to a literary text, the translations produced by the system can provide a convenient option for understanding the general meaning of the text in a foreign language.[8]

Translation methodology

According to Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Yandex, the mechanism of Translate is as follows:[9]

In addition to the free version for users, there is a commercial API online translator (free up to 10 million characters, then paid), designed primarily for the localization of sites of Internet shops and travel companies.[10]

Features

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Яндекс запустил сервис онлайн-перевода . 2024-07-05 . Компания Яндекс . ru.
  2. http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=438324 Yandex has got its own interpreter
  3. Web site: Yandex — Technologies — Machine Translation. Yandex. 2016-06-08.
  4. Web site: "Yandex" has learned to translate the texts online. vesti.ru. 2016-06-08.
  5. Web site: One model is better than two. Yandex.Translate launches a hybrid machine translation system. Yandex Blog. en. 2019-10-03.
  6. http://clubs.ya.en/company/replies.xml?item_no=47317 Service Yandex.Translation was released out of beta
  7. http://clubs.ya.en/company/replies.xml?item_no=56744 Yandex.Translation — pocket translator for iPhone
  8. Web site: "Яндекс" запустил онлайн-переводчик текстов . 2024-07-05 . Lenta.RU . ru.
  9. Book: Sokolov-Mitrich D. V.. Sokolov-Mitrich, Dmitry Vladimirovich. . Moscow. 2014. . 368. Real stories. 978-5-00057-092-0.
  10. Web site: "Yandex" has started to sell services online translation . 18 May 2015 . 25 August 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140825001711/http://www.the-village.ru/village/hopesandfears/news/163349-yandex-translate . dead .
  11. Web site: It's time to travel! . 16 July 2016 . 10 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200110125557/http://translate-blog.ya.ru/replies.xml?item_no=191 . dead .
  12. Web site: Translate photo . 16 July 2016 . 13 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150913024444/https://blog.yandex.ru/post/96186/ . dead .