Baidu released its brandnew online translation service

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) released its brandnew online translation service (BAIDU FANYI) http://fanyi.baidu.com/on Jun.30th, currently supporting translation from chinese to english and vice versa.

fanyi, means Translation in Chinese

its mechanism is similar to Google Translate because it is based on machine learning as well;

it’s totally automatic without any manual interruptions.

although google’s translation can do translation for many languages while baidu only support english and chinese for now.

Let’s see some trials and the comparisons to human translation and Google Translate

From English to Chinese

Baidu Translation from English to Chinese

Source: Hello，I am the webmaster of ChineseTranspro.com

Baidu Translate: 你好，我是管理员chinesetranspro.com

Google Translate: 您好，我是ChineseTranspro.com站长

Human Translation: 你好，我是ChineseTransPro.com网站的站长。

Source: ChineseTranspro.com provides Chinese Translation Services

Baidu Translate: chinesetranspro.com提供翻译服务

Google Translate: ChineseTranspro.com中国提供翻译服务

Human Translation: ChineseTranspro.com提供中文翻译服务。

From Chinese to English

Baidu Translation from Chinese to English

Source: 大家好，我是ChineseTransPro网站的站长。

Baidu Translate: Everybody is good, I is the ChineseTransPro web site.

Google Translate: Hello, everyone, I ChineseTransPro site owners.

Human Translation: Hi, I am the webmaster of ChineseTranspro.

Source: ChineseTransPro提供中文翻译服务。

Baidu Translate: ChineseTransPro provides Chinese translation services.

Google Translate：ChineseTransPro provide Chinese translation services.

Human Translation: ChineseTransPro provides Chinese translation services.

We noticed that Baidu can recognize both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese as the source text while only translate English into Simplified Chinese as the target language.

Google Translator can now automatically detect the source language, and translate 63 languages​​, in addition, can also use Google global business insight put ads in all languages​​.

It was said Baidu will have a bilingual view, however I could not find the English view of this service.

Baidu was reported to be supported by the cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a project has applied for state funds to support tens of millions, and has developed two years, now also part of the trial operation stage. Specific effects also need to use third-party evaluation and user feedback.

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