Yandex. Translation vs. Google Translate

Yandex team continues to follow the footsteps of the leader, and once again plays in their laboratories up Googley services. Someone such behavior may seem insufficiently innovative and even more humiliating, but take a closer language does not turn them into something to reproach with the Russian company developments. Yes, their browser is based on the Chrome, their card, disk, mail and search sometimes somewhere in something repeated Google solution, but in this case the fact of participation in the race with the most expensive technology companies of the world worth. Yandex is trying to keep up with, and sometimes even jumps forward, offering us their own original solutions and functions.

And the reason for such a long introduction served as the recent release of a mobile application for the transfer (iOS, Android) called Yandex. Transfer. In this article we will examine how it does its job and how much corresponds to the standard in the face of Google Translate.

Interface

Appearance translation from Yandex touching similar to its competitor. That, in general, it is not surprising, because the excessive originality here would be clearly excessive.

Located on top of the selection panel language, underneath the display area of ​​translation, even lower - a place for text entry. In the Google Translate, we see yet another toolbar at the bottom to activate the voice input, handwriting and pictures. In Yandex her there and due to this, as well as the lighter colors, the interface was more spacious and comfortable.

input methods

As mentioned just above, Google Translate can translate voice, finger-drawn doodle, text and photos, of course, the text typed on the keyboard. Russian development of such a variety can not boast, there is only the keyboard and using the microphone. I do not know whether to consider it as a disadvantage, because the handwriting is needed rather rare, except when redrawing characters, a text from pictures I generally have never turned out to recognize (perhaps to blame rather mediocre camera my gadget).

But in Yandex. Translation implemented such a cool thing as a prediction of the input words. Therefore, for example, my favorite query "how to get to the library," you can enter just 8 screen touches (including 4 spaces). It's really cool and really saves time.

Transfer

Google Translate knows more than 70 languages, Yandex - while only 19 (Russian, English, French, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Croatian, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Czech, Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese languages). On the other hand, it is the most widely spoken languages, and they cover probably 90 percent of the area of ​​the globe. Regarding the transfer of technology, in both the translators used the same system for statistical machine translation, allowing the use of the translation of the information extracted from a large number of outstanding online text documents. Technology-the one, but the algorithms are different, so we can expect different quality translation.

A comparison of the linguistic features of the work of these two programs require a separate more detailed study, but me after a period of testing failed to identify a clear leader (it is a language pair English Russian). Some offer more than one program succeed, other turnover - another, but in general, all about the same.

Additional functions

As part of the additional Google Translate features strong lead. That in general it is not surprising utility age will make it possible to acquire many additional features. So, there is a convenient buttons copy text to the clipboard and send buffer in another program, as well as the mode full-screen display, so that even sighted Turkish shepherd make out that you are there to show him at his Satan-machine. And Google Translate has a killer advantage of off-line translation.

Yandex this can be countered only by a more detailed word translations, demonstrating not only the translation, but also the value, synonyms and examples of words. Thus, we have in addition to the translator and get a great dictionary. Well, to begin with, and it's not bad. Yes, both the interpreter able to voice translation using voice engine installed in the system.

Output

Given that this is the first mobile version of Yandex translator, I do not dare to call this practice makes perfect. Already, it is worthy to take a place next to Google Translate, since from its main function - translation - cope perfectly well. And then, if the developers not abandoned and screw it lacks advanced features, it is quite able to push out Google c and your device.