In conclusion, language is just too complex for machines to understand all the grammar, context and nuances Google Translate could never replace the work of a professional human translator. If the translation of the ingredients on a package is not 100% accurate, it can cause severe problems for people with allergies or restrictive diets. Let’s take the translation of food packaging as an example. These may manage to get a smile out of us, but the consequences of mistranslation can sometimes be quite serious. As a result, users have no means to know whether the translation in the target language is good or not and they end up presenting weird translations to the public like the ones in the pictures above. Google Translate doesn’t offer a quality check on its translations.Even when it manages to produce grammatical sentences, they often are too literal and, as a consequence, sound awkward or funny to a native speaker of the target language. Google Translate produces unnatural translations.However, if it has insufficient data, it can only guess based on what it does have, which can often be misleading or simply wrong. Google Translate will look for appropriate translations by searching for linguistic patterns within millions of documents already translated by human translators. Google Translate is not 100% accurate.A few self-explanatory images available on the web would suffice to answer, but here is a more technical explanation of the dangers of using Google Translate.
UPDATE(v1.2): Now you can change the extension options to enable automatic translation or prevent the banner automatically popped up for specified languages and web sites.Why should I hire a translator when I can get Google Translate to do it for free? Sadly, this is not an uncommon question. It does not work because Chrome does not allow extension gallery pages to be scripted. NOTE: Please do NOT try this extension to translate this page or other pages on.
Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.īy installing this extension, you agree to the Terms of Service at If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you're on is different from the language you're using for your Google Chrome interface. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you're visiting. This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar.
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