Google Translate is a multilingual machine translation service from Google. Since November 2016 it has used neural machine translation, which translates whole sentences at a time. Users translate text, documents and websites, and also use speech translation, camera-based translation, handwriting input and a bilingual conversation mode. The service is available through a web interface, apps for Android and iOS, and browser extensions. There is no self-hosted or open source edition of the service.
Google is headquartered in Mountain View, California, in the United States, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. As a US provider, Google is subject to the CLOUD Act. Google's privacy policy names Google Translate as an example of a service where algorithms detect patterns in the phrases people translate, and states that Google maintains servers around the world and may process information outside the user's country. Anyone who enters confidential text therefore passes it to a US provider. A European organisation wishing to avoid this should choose translation services whose jurisdiction and processing location are fixed in advance.