Yandex.Translate


Yandex.Translate is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or 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.
This service is also built into the Russian Wikipedia to provide translation services from English to Russian.

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 of Hill Mari.
As of , translation is available in 98 languages:
  1. Afrikaans
  2. Albanian
  3. Amharic
  4. Arabic
  5. Armenian
  6. Azerbaijani
  7. Basque
  8. Bashkir
  9. Belarusian
  10. Bengali
  11. Bosnian
  12. Bulgarian
  13. Burmese
  14. Catalan
  15. Cebuano
  16. Chinese
  17. Chuvash
  18. Croatian
  19. Czech
  20. Danish
  21. Dutch
  22. Elvish
  23. Emoji
  24. English
  25. Esperanto
  26. Estonian
  27. Finnish
  28. French
  29. Galician
  30. Georgian
  31. German
  32. Greek
  33. Gujarati
  34. Haitian Creole
  35. Hebrew
  36. Hill Mari
  37. Hindi
  38. Hungarian
  39. Icelandic
  40. Indonesian
  41. Irish
  42. Italian
  43. Japanese
  44. Javanese
  45. Kabardian
  46. Kannada
  47. Kazakh
  48. Khmer
  49. Korean
  50. Kyrgyz
  51. Lao
  52. Latin
  53. Latvian
  54. Lithuanian
  55. Luxembourgish
  56. Macedonian
  57. Malagasy
  58. Malay
  59. Malayalam
  60. Maltese
  61. Maori
  62. Marathi
  63. Mongolian
  64. Nepali
  65. Norwegian
  66. Papiamento
  67. Persian
  68. Polish
  69. Portuguese
  70. Punjabi
  71. Romanian
  72. Russian
  73. Scottish Gaelic
  74. Serbian
  75. Slovak
  76. Slovenian
  77. Somali
  78. Spanish
  79. Sundanese
  80. Swahili
  81. Swedish
  82. Tagalog
  83. Tajik
  84. Tamazight
  85. Tamil
  86. Tatar
  87. Telugu
  88. Thai
  89. Turkish
  90. Udmurt
  91. Ukrainian
  92. Urdu
  93. Uzbek
  94. Vietnamese
  95. Welsh
  96. Xhosa
  97. Yakut
  98. Yiddish
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, the mechanism of Translate is as follows:
In addition to the free version for users, there is a commercial API online translator, designed primarily for the localization of sites of Internet shops and travel companies.

Features