{"id":101853,"date":"2018-06-14T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=101853"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:25:14","slug":"google-translate-on-device-ai-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-translate-on-device-ai-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate gets a new AI boost no matter where you are"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you use Google Translate a lot, you\u2019ll have probably noticed that over the last couple of years the translations it offers have improved a lot. The reason Translate got better at its job is machine learning. AI algorithms, specifically named neural machine translation (NMT), have allowed Google Translate to offer much more accurate translations.<\/p>\n

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For the last two years, however, there has been a catch in that the NMT has only worked when happening on Google\u2019s hardware. In short, it only works if you\u2019re connected to the internet when you\u2019re using Google Translate<\/p>\n

Google Translate offers language specific download packs. If you think you\u2019ll be offline or if you don\u2019t want to use international roaming you can download a language pack and use Google Translate when you\u2019re offline. Although useful, this phrase-based machine translation (PBMT), as Google calls it, falls short of the NMT available if you can connect to Google\u2019s servers.<\/p>\n

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On-device AI translations much better than the old PBMT but not as effective as AI translation done on Google’s servers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Google has now announced that it is bringing a version of NMT to mobile devices. You\u2019ll be able to benefit from AI assisted translation even if you\u2019re using a downloaded language pack and you\u2019re not connected to Google\u2019s servers.<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, Google Translate language packs only take up 35-45mb of space<\/strong>, so they\u2019re well worth having. Google points out that the on-device version of NMT still isn\u2019t as effective as the online version but that it is much more accurate than the previous PBMT method. Google says it will be rolling out the new On-device NMT in 59 languages in the next few days and offered these instructions<\/a> to those wanting to take advantage of it:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo try NMT offline translations, go to your Translate app on Android or iOS. If you\u2019ve used offline translations before, you\u2019ll see a banner on your home screen which will take you to the right place to update your offline files. If not, go to your offline translation settings and tap the arrow next to the language name to download the package for that language. Now you\u2019ll be ready to translate text whether you\u2019re online or not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Offline translation is a really useful feature. If you\u2019re low on data, traveling abroad, or you\u2019re simply prudent enough to want to take advantage of Wi-Fi whenever you have it these new On-device AI algorithms will make a big difference to your language translations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you use Google Translate a lot, you\u2019ll have probably noticed that over the last couple of years the translations it offers have improved a lot. The reason Translate got better at its job is machine learning. AI algorithms, specifically named neural machine translation (NMT), have allowed Google Translate to offer much more accurate translations. … Continue reading “Google Translate gets a new AI boost no matter where you are”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2681,1068,1081,1036,1080],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-101853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-translate","tag-google","tag-mac","tag-productivity","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327867,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101853\/revisions\/327867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=101853"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=101853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}