A faster, simpler, and safer browser goes polyglot
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
If you're excited about the latest in integrating translation tools into your web experience, today's new stable release of Google Chrome brings to our users translation capabilities in the web browser. Here's quick demo on how the translation feature works in Chrome:
When the language of the webpage you're viewing is different from your preferred language setting, Chrome will display an infobar asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you, using Google Translate. With just a click, the entire text on the page will be translated into your language of preference, without the need for browser extensions or plugins. If you don't want Chrome to offer to translate a particular language or web page, you can control these settings by clicking on the "Options" button in the infobar.
So how does the browser actually 'know' what language the page is in? Language detection takes place locally on your computer, so no information is sent to Google Translate until you choose to translate a page. Language detection in Chrome is based on the compact language detection library (CLD), which we've made available as open source code.
For those of you who are interested in the technical nitty-gritty, here's what takes place under the hood: for most languages, the CLD determines the language of a page by breaking down its text in quadgrams, or sequences of up to four characters. The CLD then looks up each quadgram in a large hashtable that contains language probabilities, which is included in the Chrome binaries. This hashtable was originally built by processing language probabilities over billions of web pages that are indexed by Google's search engine. In just a few milliseconds, the CLD can accurately determine the language of most web pages. Chrome shows an infobar offering to translate the page only when the CLD has detected the language of a web page above a certain degree of confidence. If you click the "Translate" button in the infobar, the text contained in the page is then sent to Google Translate's servers (over a secure connection if the page was served over HTTPS). Thanks to the work of the Google Translate team, Google Translate's servers return this translated text quickly so that Chrome can replace the text in the page with the translated version. Rest assured, the request to Google Translate's servers does not include any cookies.
We're excited to introduce translation in the browser, and look forward to improving this feature over future releases of Chrome. For example, we hope to work on include making language detection even more precise -- by providing larger CLD tables without increasing the size of the browser's installation package, and improving the way Chrome interacts with other website translation tools.
With this new stable release of Chrome, you can easily read a diversity of foreign language information sources, access educational materials from universities around the world, and even conduct online commerce across borders and languages -- all in your native language. We hope that the browser can truly be a passport to a web that is remarkably local as it is global. You can try translation in the browser for yourself by downloading Google Chrome at google.com/chrome. For those of you who aren't yet acquainted with Chrome, you can learn more about Chrome's speed, security, and many other features.
Posted by Jay Civelli, Software Engineer, Google Chrome
When the language of the webpage you're viewing is different from your preferred language setting, Chrome will display an infobar asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you, using Google Translate. With just a click, the entire text on the page will be translated into your language of preference, without the need for browser extensions or plugins. If you don't want Chrome to offer to translate a particular language or web page, you can control these settings by clicking on the "Options" button in the infobar.
So how does the browser actually 'know' what language the page is in? Language detection takes place locally on your computer, so no information is sent to Google Translate until you choose to translate a page. Language detection in Chrome is based on the compact language detection library (CLD), which we've made available as open source code.
For those of you who are interested in the technical nitty-gritty, here's what takes place under the hood: for most languages, the CLD determines the language of a page by breaking down its text in quadgrams, or sequences of up to four characters. The CLD then looks up each quadgram in a large hashtable that contains language probabilities, which is included in the Chrome binaries. This hashtable was originally built by processing language probabilities over billions of web pages that are indexed by Google's search engine. In just a few milliseconds, the CLD can accurately determine the language of most web pages. Chrome shows an infobar offering to translate the page only when the CLD has detected the language of a web page above a certain degree of confidence. If you click the "Translate" button in the infobar, the text contained in the page is then sent to Google Translate's servers (over a secure connection if the page was served over HTTPS). Thanks to the work of the Google Translate team, Google Translate's servers return this translated text quickly so that Chrome can replace the text in the page with the translated version. Rest assured, the request to Google Translate's servers does not include any cookies.
We're excited to introduce translation in the browser, and look forward to improving this feature over future releases of Chrome. For example, we hope to work on include making language detection even more precise -- by providing larger CLD tables without increasing the size of the browser's installation package, and improving the way Chrome interacts with other website translation tools.
With this new stable release of Chrome, you can easily read a diversity of foreign language information sources, access educational materials from universities around the world, and even conduct online commerce across borders and languages -- all in your native language. We hope that the browser can truly be a passport to a web that is remarkably local as it is global. You can try translation in the browser for yourself by downloading Google Chrome at google.com/chrome. For those of you who aren't yet acquainted with Chrome, you can learn more about Chrome's speed, security, and many other features.
Posted by Jay Civelli, Software Engineer, Google Chrome
Does it support several preferred languages? What if I don't like to translate pages in all the languages I know?
ReplyDeleteSo... How do I revert "Never translate [language]" selection? Options panel is no longer shown.
ReplyDeleteWhat if the page to translate is in several languages? For example, a few paragraphs, each in a different language, or main text including quotes in different languages?
ReplyDeleteI wonder when will this CLD feature be used to determine the language in input boxes and switch the built in spellchecker accordingly.
ReplyDelete(This would solve a very annoying feature for users who have to write emails in multiple languages and have to switch the language of the spellchecker to avoid having the whole text underlined in red.
I hope Firefox, too will not be shy to implement this based on the open sourced CLD.)
@Roman: Yes, Chrome does support several preferred languages.
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ReplyDeleteCan I disable the toolbar from the HTML code of the page?
I hate this f*g thing, want to remove it as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteGoogle this is a big mistake!
It's still on my browser.... I hoped it was a nightmare but nothings changed. I still am unable to remove it....
ReplyDeleteWhy are these google people so proud of it....
Please help!
Rather than criticise just switch it off, if you have the latest stable release of Chrome the option is available from the Under the Bonnet section in the Options Menu.
ReplyDeleteDe-select the translate tick box and hey presto it won't bother you again
@Dave
ReplyDeleteI tried to find the translate tick box in the Under-the-Bonnet section but I cannot find it.
Perhaps I am not using the right version of Chrome (I'm using 4.1.249.1036 (41514)).
Grateful if you could you point me in the right direction.
Thanks
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ReplyDeleteI don't recall which version is the latest now, sorry, however if you click on About Google Chrome and let it check to see if you have the latest stable release, I know Google are rolling out the new update across all browsers so maybe yours has not been updated yet??
Why shouldn't we complain Dave?
ReplyDeleteIt's an unasked for present;
the newest google version wasn't presented with it.
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I hate it.
And there's no answer from google.
don't use it if you don't want it, the option is there to turn it off.
ReplyDeleteyou personally may not want it but many others will, your not forced by Google to use it
Don't see what the big deal is. This feature is useful to more people than it is an annoyance. If you keep getting the bar then you obviously use a lot of foreign language pages. Simple tell Chrome "Never translate this language". what's so hard about that?
ReplyDeleteWhy SHOULD we have to tell Chrome "Never [to] translate this language" -- especially since we have to do it for EVERY language other than English -- and when did we ever ask for this interference in our browsing in the first place? It's one thing to offer a service; it's quite another to have it thrust upon one, willy-nilly.
ReplyDeleteThere are many good things about Chrome, but this is decidedly not one of them: it recalls that universally loathed, busybodying Word paperclip...
To rub salt into the wound, the language used is both inaccurate
("Would you like to translate it?" No, but I might like it translated: I have little confidence in a system that can't see the difference) and insultingly flippant, with its "Nope".
this is one of the coolest feature I ever saw. Stop complaining or just turn the translator off.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how to revert an option made to not translate one specific language ?
this is very very very awesome feature. so tired of going to other websites to translate the text manually!!
ReplyDeleteGreat feature, but it works satisfactory only translating to english. And translation of Eastern languages is steel in much need of correction.
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ReplyDeleteIt’s amazing to translate whatever we need in several different languages. I like this initiative.
ReplyDeleteAs a student, this is an opportunity for me that will help me a lot getting everything in my preferred language.
ReplyDeleteI really become speechless to know the new out coming from Chrome!
ReplyDeleteYesterday I knew only one language and today I am a multilingual… wow!
ReplyDeleteI am a journalist and need to know world news perfectly. I have experienced so many newsletters with two different languages in the same page online. Can Chrome provide me accurate translation for those to my preferred language?
ReplyDeleteWith chrome, I have done my work easily…
ReplyDeleteI am a translator and have to translate so many pages into different languages every day. Hope, Chrome will be an effective assistance for me.
ReplyDeleteIf improved with larger CLD tables, it will be loved by all.
ReplyDeleteIt’s amazing to translate whatever we need in several different languages. I like this initiative.
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