Google is helping the Wikimedia Foundation achieve its goal of making Wikipedia articles available in a lot more languages. The Foundation has added Google Translate to its content translation tool, ...

Wikipedia is widely leveraged throughout Google products, including in Knowledge Panels used by Search, Assistant, and Home, as well as for fact checks in YouTube. Wikimedia is now integrating Google ...

Alphabet 's GOOGL division Google is leaving no stone unturned to bolster presence in the digital language translator space on the back of its strategic partnerships. Recently, the search giant has ...

In the internet age, when we face a language barrier, there are a host of internet resources to solve it: things like translation apps, dictionary websites, versions of Wikipedia in other languages, ...

Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own Smaller editions badly need a machine translation tool — but it isn’t good enough to use on its own ...

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Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the ...

UPDATE (December 16, 2025): Google Translate has added a bunch of new languages to its practice mode, not to mention that it received a Gemini boost. Summary: Google Translate is the company’s ...