machine translation

[ muh-sheen trans-ley-shuhn, tranz‐ ]

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. the process of translating text or speech from one natural language to another by means of a computer.
2. a translation produced by a computer:

   software for accurate machine translations.

machine translation

noun

1. the production of text in one natural language from that in another by means of computer procedures

Word History and Origins

Origin of machine translation¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

How localization leader Iyuno Media Group opens entertainment to international audiencesIyuno also built its own neural machine translation engines, trained on data from specific entertainment genres, to help its human translators work more quickly.

From TechCrunch

They can also go wrong inadvertently when used for machine translation.

From MIT Technology Review