Google Translate's AI help is now available offline

Being tongue-tied on holiday could become a thing of the past thanks to a major update to Google's Translate feature. Two years ago it introduced translating AI called'neural machine translation (NMT)' to improve the accuracy of translations - and now this is available offline. Phones running on both iOS and Android will be able to take advantage of the new update and it will be available in 59 languages. Two years ago Google introduced translating AI called'neural machine translation (NMT)' to improve the accuracy of translations - and now this is available offline Google says that each language won't take up too much storage - just 35 to 45Mb. It also uses broader context to help determine the most relevant translation, which it then rearranges and adjusts to sound more like a real person speaking with proper grammar.