They reported that 28% of the mistranslated Spanish sentences and 4% of the mistranslated Chinese sentences could have done serious harm to patients. For one translated document, they found that the translation could have been fatal if the patient followed the instructions, due to one life-threatening error in the medication instructions. In one study published in the American Medical Association’s JAMA Internal Medicine Journal, authors found that patient discharge instructions translated from English into Spanish and Chinese using Google Translate resulted in few instances of errors, but ones of huge significance. It also fails to learn to distinguish between homonyms (words that are spelled the same but have completely different meanings, like trunk which can be an appendage on an elephant or a large box to hold possessions). But machine translation still fails to properly understand and incorporate regular colloquialisms and sayings that can be essential in carrying over the core messaging of a document. Google has been making some progress with its machine translation – in 2016 it came out with a neural model of Google Translate that is 60% more accurate than the previous statistical translation software. But individual words are easy to translate! Communicating the meaning that comes from within strings of words is when a human’s finesse and experience are essential. Supposedly, Google Translate translates 100 billion words per day. When accuracy is important in a translated document, Google Translate is not a reliable translation source. However, the longer and more complicated your text becomes, the more the accuracy of Google Translate begins to decrease. Google Translate is perfect for quick translation jobs of small chunks of text where you just need to get across the general gist of the text. It can translate text and speech from one language into a multitude of others, and back again. Google Translate is a free, multilingual machine translation service offered by Google. Posted by acutrans19 | Octo| Tags: document translation, google translate vs human translation, translation services
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