Yandex Translate

Yandex Translate 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, developed by Yandex. 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.
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 Russian national minority languages.
As of January 2023, translation is available in 98 languages:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese
Catalan
Cebuano
Chinese
Chuvash
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Elvish (Sindarin)
Emoji (Not a natural language)
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hebrew
Hill Mari
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh (Cyrillic and Latin)
Khmer
Korean
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Māori
Marathi
Meadow Mari
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian
Papiamento
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin)
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Udmurt
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek (Latin and Cyrillic)
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yakut
Yiddish
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. There is an app for devices based on the iOS software, 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.
Translation methodology
According to Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Yandex, the mechanism of Translate is as follows:
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.
Features
the mobile app for iOS is available for the transliteration of the Arabic, Armenian, Chinese (Pinyin), Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Persian languages;
voice input;
photo text translation feature (uses its own OCR (optical character recognition) technology) – in apps for mobile phones;
the "Suggest translation" button (user patches to help improve the quality of machine translations);
the "Favorites" section, where you can add translations of individual words and sentences;
virtual keyboard.
See also
Apertium
Comparison of machine translation applications
Google Translate
Microsoft Translator
PROMT
StarDict
SYSTRAN
WikiBhasha
References
External links
Yandex.Translate (in English)
Machine translation software
Natural language processing software
Products introduced in 2011
Translation websites
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