Naver Papago
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Type of site | Machine translation |
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| Owner | Naver Corporation |
| URL | papago |
| Current status | Active |
Naver Papago (Korean: 네이버 파파고), shortened to Papago and stylized as papago, is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Naver Corporation. The name Papago comes from the Esperanto word for parrot, Esperanto being a constructed language.[1]
Papago ended its trial phase and officially launched on July 19, 2017, with translation options. It was only available as a smartphone app but it has since launched its own website and has expanded to other languages.[2]
From November 2019, Papago was changed to be available without Internet service.[3]
In 2020, the image translation function was introduced, and text in photos can be translated directly.[4]
Main functions
- 1:1 Conversation Mode: An interactive translation, translated through speech recognition.
- Image Translation: The portion of a photo in a gallery or the characters in a newly photographed picture is specified and translated into text.[5]
Special functions
WSD screen
If a homonym is detected in a sentence to be translated, the translator presents various interpretations for a homograph found in an input sentence. Users can choose a specific meaning and receive the retranslated sentence associated with their selected sense. Each sense is represented as a clear image on the translation result screen.[6]
Automatic conversion of exchange rate
Using real-time exchange rate information, the current exchange rate is calculated along with the translation result.
Supported languages
The following languages are supported in Naver Papago:
- Arabic
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- English
- French
- German
- Hindi (browser only)
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese (browser only)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Thai
- Vietnamese
