Google today said that it's improving translations that are available through its Google Translate service for nine languages by using neural machine translation, a method that was recently implemented for translations from Chinese to English. The improvements work for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Google started rolling out the new system in the past couple of days, Google Translate's product lead Barak Turovsky said during a media briefing at a Google office in San Francisco.

The Neural Machine Translation translates entire sentences instead of small pieces. It examines the broader context of the sentence in order to produce the more relevant translation. The result is a translation that uses proper grammar and does not sound like a Dalek. The Neural Machine Translation is an "end-to-end learning system built" that learns over time to develop more natural translations.

Neural Machine Translation will also be available for all businesses through Google Cloud Translation API. The new edition will include the highest-quality model that Google currently has that will reduce translation errors by more than 55 to 85 percent and access to the eight most popular languages. The edition is tailored “for users who need precise, long-form translation services. Examples include livestream translations, high volume of emails and detailed articles and documents.” A standard, less expensive edition in 103 languages will also be available for purchase. Google Translate is available on desktop, Android, and iOS.