Google Translate is a translation service from Google. It launched on the web in 2006 and now supports well over 200 languages. Mobile apps for Android and iOS followed, and the service is also built into Chrome, Android and other Google products.
People type or paste text to translate it, or speak into the app and hear the result read aloud. Conversation mode translates both sides of a spoken chat in turn. The camera feature translates signs, menus and documents by pointing a phone at them, using Google Lens. Users can translate whole documents and websites, save phrases to a phrasebook and download languages for offline use while travelling.
Google Translate is free for people. Businesses and developers pay to use the Cloud Translation API in their own apps and websites. Quality varies between language pairs, and it tends to be stronger for widely spoken languages. Travellers, students and people living abroad use it every day to read and write in a language they do not know well. It runs on the web, iOS and Android.