To develop Translate for Animals, we worked closely with many of the world’s top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. As such, this write-up can’t help but re-plow ground. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problemsof idiolect and dialect, or the proper unit of translation, authorial voice, or tone, register, slang, and metaphor. Translate for Animals is an application for Android phones that recognises and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats for example. This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. We’ve always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans This English to Bengali (Bangla) Translation system is powered by our own machine translation software running on our servers.
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