AI translation improves but human checks still needed for high-stakes text, experts say
AI translation now handles over one trillion words a month on Google Translate alone, with the standalone machine-translation market worth an estimated $1.4 billion last year. For low-risk tasks such as internal documents or product listings, raw AI output is often sufficient, says John Zimmerman of the Swiss non-profit OKA, which uses AI drafts plus human review to publish thousands of…
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- Google Translate processes over one trillion words monthly; standalone machine translation market worth $1.4bn
- OKA study: 27% of AI drafts corrected, 5-6% of errors changed meaning across 119 articles and 10 language pairs
- Experts cite legal, medical and asylum errors; fluent output makes mistakes harder to detect
How long will humans be needed for translation?
BBC Technology · 13 October 2026
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