Which Google service launched in 2006 to translate text between languages online?

Google Translate launched in 2006 as Google’s online machine-translation service.

Its original system used statistical machine translation, learning patterns from large collections of bilingual text rather than translating through manually written rules alone. Google later moved the service to neural machine translation, which generally produces more fluent results by considering broader context.

Google Translate is not the same as Google Dictionary, which focused on word definitions and translations. The service has expanded from text translation to features such as speech, camera-based translation and offline language packs, although accuracy can vary by language and subject matter.