The Google translator toolkit is a set of online tools that can help human translation between a range of languages. It combines machine translation with various collaborative tools for uploading, editing, checking and sharing translations. Google recently increased the number of languages it handles by 285, bringing the total to 345. This means it can translate between over 10,000 language pairs. Pretty amazing stuff. A specific purpose of the toolkit is to ‘help preserve and revitalize small and minority languages’, according to Google.
Here’s a video from Google explaining more about how the toolkit works:
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