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About 2 years ago Google had introduced Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to Google Translate. Now, what Google has done is bring NMT technology offline— i.e, on device. This means that the technology will run in the Google Translate apps directly on your Android or iOS device, so that you can get high-quality translations even when you don’t have access to an Internet connection, said Google.
The neural system translates whole sentences at a time, rather than piece by piece. It 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. This makes translated paragraphs and articles a lot smoother and easier to read.
Offline translations can be useful when traveling to other countries without a local data plan, if you don’t have access to the Web, or if you just don’t want to use cellular data. And since each language set is just 35-45MB, they won’t take too much storage space on your phone when you download them. With improved offline support, full phrase translation in 59 different languages is now available.
