Machine Translation vs. Human Translation

Human translators can translate one language at a time while machines can translate multiple languages at once. This is especially applicable for travelers, as a matter of fact, Google Translate has been included in the list of Smartphone Apps for Travelers. When talking about Machine Translations we all think of Google Translate first, for one thing, it is the most famous one with more than 500 million users worldwide. It is a huge number compared to human translators: over 330,000 translators internationally which is just 0.0045% of the world population. Google Translate translates 100 billion words per day if we convert it to hours it is 41,666,666 words per hour, in comparison 250 words per hour are translated by professionals.