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If you’re a user of Google’s Gmail service, you will soon be able to translate more easily within your email! The new system, which is being rolled out to all users during the next few days, will work much like a Google search which asks if you’d like to translate the page when the search engine finds the page in another language.

To translate a message manually, you can click on Translate Message in the header at the top of the message. If you want things to happen automatically, select Always translate. If you don’t need translation for a specific language, you can select Turn off and messages in that particular language won’t be translated for you. Further instructions can be found in the official Google Blog post.

This will save lots of time and copy and pasting to Google Translate!

Google has announced that over 200 million people use its’ Translate service every month.

Google Translate launched in 2006 offering Chinese and Arabic translation, and now offers translation in 64 different languages.

Google Research Scientist Franz Och said in an official blog post:

In a given day we translate roughly as much text as you’d find in 1 million books. To put it another way: what all the professional human translators in the world produce in a year, our system translates in roughly a single day. By this estimate, most of the translation on the planet is now done by Google Translate.

Whilst the translation system isn’t as precise as a human translator, there’s no denying it’s popularity and usefulness.

Source: Google