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Yandex Translate
Yandex.Translate homepage in English
Type of site
Neural machine translation
Available in103 languages; see below
Interface: 13 languages including English, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian
OwnerYandex
URLtranslate.yandex.com (in English)
translate.yandex.ru (in Russian)
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched22 March 2011; 14 years ago (2011-03-22)[1][2]
Current statusActive

Yandex Translate (Russian: Яндекс Переводчик, romanized: Yandeks Perevodchik) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of web pages into another language.

The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation,[3] developed by Yandex.[4] 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.[5]

The translation page first appeared in 2009[citation needed], utilizing PROMT, and was also built into Yandex Browser itself, to assist in translation for websites.

Supported languages

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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.[2]

Yandex.Translate has some languages that are missing from Google Translate, such as Russia's national minority languages.

As of July 2025, translation is available in 103 languages:

  1. Afrikaans
  2. Albanian
  3. Amharic β
  4. Arabic
  5. Armenian
  6. Azerbaijani
  7. Bashkir
  8. Basque
  9. Belarusian
  10. Bengali
  11. Bosnian
  12. Bulgarian
  13. Burmese β
  14. Catalan
  15. Cebuano
  16. Chinese
  17. Chuvash
  18. Croatian
  19. Czech
  20. Danish
  21. Dutch
  22. Elvish (Sindarin) α
  23. Emoji (Not a natural language)
  24. English
  25. Erzya
  26. Esperanto
  27. Estonian
  28. Finnish
  29. French
  30. Galician
  31. Georgian
  32. German
  33. Greek
  34. Gujarati
  35. Haitian Creole
  36. Hebrew
  37. Hill Mari β
  38. Hindi
  39. Hungarian
  40. Icelandic
  41. Indonesian
  42. Irish
  43. Italian
  44. Japanese
  45. Javanese
  46. Kannada
  47. Kazakh (Cyrillic and Latin)
  48. Khmer
  49. Komi
  50. Korean
  51. Kyrgyz β
  52. Lao β
  53. Latin
  54. Latvian
  55. Lithuanian
  56. Luxembourgish
  57. Macedonian
  58. Malagasy
  59. Malay
  60. Malayalam β
  61. Maltese
  62. Māori
  63. Marathi
  64. Meadow Mari β
  65. Moksha
  66. Mongolian β
  67. Nepali
  68. Norwegian
  69. Ossetian
  70. Papiamento β
  71. Persian
  72. Polish
  73. Portuguese (European and Brazilian)
  74. Punjabi
  75. Romanian
  76. Russian
  77. Scottish Gaelic
  78. Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin)
  79. Sinhala
  80. Slovak
  81. Slovenian
  82. Spanish
  83. Sundanese
  84. Swahili
  85. Swedish
  86. Tagalog
  87. Tajik β
  88. Tamil β
  89. Tatar
  90. Telugu β
  91. Thai
  92. Turkish
  93. Tuvan
  94. Udmurt β
  95. Ukrainian
  96. Urdu
  97. Uzbek (Latin and Cyrillic)
  98. Vietnamese
  99. Welsh
  100. Xhosa β
  101. Yakut β
  102. Yiddish
  103. Zulu

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.[6] There is an app for devices based on the iOS software,[7] 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

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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.[8]

Translation methodology

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According to Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Yandex, the mechanism of Translate is as follows:[9]

Previously, machine translation was based on "the meaning of the text" model: take any language, translate the words in the universal language of the senses, and then translate these meanings in the words of another language – and obtain the translated text. This model prevailed in the 1970s-1980s and automated in the 1990s. All translations of the 1990s built on this ideology. In the 2000s, there was a search, and it became clear: to translate the text, does not necessarily understand the meaning. Humanity has translated so much already that the probability of finding two similar network in the text in different languages is quite large. How to determine that it is the same text? Very simple. They contain many of the same words. If the document of 1,000 words dictionary 800 are a pair, then most likely, it is a translation from one language to another. And then it is already possible to break the text into paragraphs, to offer and something to do with this work. That is, the machine translations are not words, but finished pieces, the machine is capable of doing. In fact, if you think about it, this method of translation even more consistent with the way a person learns the language as a child in real life. After all, we hardly think in terms of "meaning-text", when we say, for example: "Take a pear".

In addition to the free version for users, there is a commercial API online translator (free up to 10 million characters, then paid), designed primarily for the localization of sites of Internet shops and travel companies.[10]

Features

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  • the mobile app for iOS is available for the transliteration of the Arabic, Armenian, Chinese (Pinyin), Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Persian languages;[11]
  • voice input;
  • photo text translation feature (uses its own OCR (optical character recognition) technology) – in apps for mobile phones;[12]
  • the "Suggest translation" button (user patches to help improve the quality of machine translations);
  • the "Favorites" section, where you can add translations of individual words and sentences;
  • virtual keyboard.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Яндекс запустил сервис онлайн-перевода". Компания Яндекс (in Russian). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b Yandex has got its own interpreter
  3. ^ "Yandex — Technologies — Machine Translation". Yandex. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  4. ^ ""Yandex" has learned to translate the texts online". vesti.ru. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  5. ^ "One model is better than two. Yandex.Translate launches a hybrid machine translation system". Yandex Blog. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  6. ^ Service Yandex.Translation was released out of beta[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Yandex.Translation — pocket translator for iPhone[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ ""Яндекс" запустил онлайн-переводчик текстов". Lenta.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  9. ^ Sokolov-Mitrich D. V. (2014). Yandex.Book [ru]. Real stories. Moscow: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber [ru]. p. 368. ISBN 978-5-00057-092-0.
  10. ^ ""Yandex" has started to sell services online translation". Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  11. ^ "It's time to travel!". Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  12. ^ "Translate photo". Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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