Google Translate: 'This landmark update is our biggest single leap in 10 years'

Google says data from side-by-side evaluations, where human raters compare the quality of translations, shows the improvements achieved by Google Neural Machine Translation, or GNMT. Google boasts that its latest update to Google Translate has given it the biggest leap of the past decade in natural language translation. Google Translate might not be as good as humans at translating language, but the search giant's recent work using neural networks to improve speech recognition and computer vision has made it hard to beat in machine translation. The latest update to Google Translate utilizes Google's Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system for translating phrases, which is rolling out to eight language pairs. Google actually announced NMT in September in a paper describing how it's using neural networks to close the gap between human and machine translation.