Google makes a silly translation mistake in global I/O presentation

Google makes a silly translation mistake in global I/O presentation

Google has been investing heavily in translations lately. The Google Pixel 6a will therefore be equipped with live translation, in addition to the fact that it came in the tail with the AR glasses that can directly translate what a foreigner says to you. Great, but sometimes things get ‘lost in translation’, as it turned out during Google I/O. For example, something Arabic was written wrong and there were more mistakes.

translation error

Of course, we were a little less focused on it during the presentation, as Google kept firing one software innovation or new gadget after another at us. But some stupid mistakes were made in, for example, the artwork that was shown when it came to translations. Very silly, because those are typical things that an entire army of people has to check before it’s ‘a-ok’ for the presentation.

Google I/O revolved around adding new languages ​​in Google Translate: no fewer than 24 languages ​​were added. Good news of course, but the artwork doesn’t bode well. 9to5Google mocked how an Arabic word had been misplaced, but there were also errors in, among others, the Tibetan and Balinese words that were on the slide. Google has now corrected the somewhat embarrassing mistakes, but of course the damage has already been done: if you can’t even spell one word in a language correctly…

Google makes a silly translation mistake in global I/O presentation

Google I/O adjusted

People on social media took to the pen to point out these errors to Google, and there was only one way for Google to respond: admit it’s wrong and update the video. No sooner said than done. If all goes well, the languages ​​can also be found accurately within the Google Translate app, so if you talk to an Arab or someone from Ecuador, you can assume that you can still make yourself understood. But, be careful with the use of proverbs, that remains dangerous on a platform like Translate.

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– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source

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