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In August 2008, Google launched a Google Translate



English to German


English to Spanish




French to English


German to English


Spanish to English



2nd stage



English to Portuguese


English to Dutch


Portuguese to English


Dutch to English



3rd stage



English to Tagalog/Filipino


Filipino/Tagalog to English



4th stage



English to Chinese (Simplified)


English to Japanese


English to Korean




Chinese (Simplified) to English


Japanese to English


Korean to English



5th stage (launched April 2006)[19]



English to Arabic


Arabic to English



6th stage (launched December 2006)



English to Russian


Russian to English



7th stage (launched February 2007)



English to Chinese (Traditional)


Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)




Chinese (Traditional) to English


Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)



8th stage (launched October 2007)


all 25 language pairs use Google's machine translation system


9th stage



English to Hindi


Hindi to English



10th stage (as of this stage, translation can be done between any two languages, going through English, if needed[clarification needed]) (launched May 2008)



Bulgarian


Croatian


Czech


Danish




Finnish


Greek


Norwegian


Polish




Romanian


Swedish



11th stage (launched September 25, 2008)



Catalan


Filipino


Hebrew




Indonesian


Latvian


Lithuanian




Serbian


Slovak


Slovene




Ukrainian


Vietnamese



12th stage (launched January 30, 2009)



Albanian


Estonian


Galician




Hungarian


Maltese


Thai




Turkish



13th stage (launched June 19, 2009)



Persian



14th stage (launched August 24, 2009)



Afrikaans


Belarusian


Icelandic




Irish


Macedonian


Malay




Swahili


Welsh


Yiddish






15th stage (launched November 19, 2009)


The Beta stage is finished. Users can now choose to have the romanization written for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hindi and Thai. For translations from Arabic, Persian and Hindi, the user can enter a Latin transliteration of the text and the text will be transliterated to the native script for these languages as the user is typing. The text can now be read by a text-to-speech program in English, Italian, French and German


16th stage (launched January 30, 2010)


Haitian Creole


17th stage (launched April 2010)


Speech program launched in Hindi and Spanish


18th stage (launched May 5, 2010)


Speech program launched in Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh (based in eSpeak).[20]


19th stage (launched May 13, 2010)[21]



Armenian


Azerbaijani




Basque


Georgian




Urdu



20th stage (launched June 2010)



Provides romanization for Arabic.



21st stage (launched September 2010)



Allows phonetic typing for Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Persian, Russian, Serbian and Urdu.


Latin



22nd stage (launched December 2010)


Romanization of Arabic removed.


Spell check added.


Google replaced some languages' text-to-speech synthesizers from eSpeak's robot voice to native speaker's nature voice technologies made by SVOX (Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish). Also the old versions of French, German, Italian and Spanish. Latin uses the same synthesizer as Italian.


Speech program launched in Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.


23rd stage (launched January 2011)


Choice of different translations for a word.


24th stage (Launched June 2011)


5 new Indic languages (in alpha) and a transliterated input method:


Bengali


Gujarati


Kannada


Tamil


Telugu


25th stage (launched July 2011)


Translation rating introduced.


26th stage (launched January 2012)


Dutch male voice synthesizer replaced with female.


Elena by SVOX replaced the Slovak eSpeak voice.


Transliteration of Yiddish added.


27th stage (launched February 2012)


Speech program launched in Thai.


Esperanto added.


28th stage (launched September 2012)


Lao added.


29th stage (launched October 2012)


Transliteration of Lao added.

(alpha status).


30th stage (launched October 2012)


New speech program launched in English


31st stage (launched November 2012)


New speech program in French, Spanish, Italian, and German


32nd stage (launched March 2013)


Phrasebook added.


33rd stage (launched April 2013)


Khmer added.


34th stage (launched May 2013)


Bosnian


Cebuano


Hmong


Javanese


Marathi


35th stage (launched May 2013)


16 additional languages can be used with camera-input: Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish.