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               Introduction                          just piece by piece. It uses this
               Google  Translate  is  a  free        broader context to help it figure
               multilingual  machine  translation    out     the    most      relevant
               service  developed  by  Google,  to   translation,  which  it  then
               translate  text,  speech,  images,    rearranges  and  adjusts  to  be
               sites, or real-time video from one    more  like  a  human  speaking
               language into another.                with proper grammar”.
                  Google  Translate  supports           Islam    according    to    its
               over  100  various  languages  at     content is not just a religion for
               different  levels  and  as  of  May   one region of earth like Mecca
               2013,  serves  over  200  million     and  its  surrounding,  but  it
               people daily.                         speaks to the whole world.
                  Rather     than    translating        It claims that has a lifestyle
               languages  directly,  it  first       for mankind or in other words
               translates  text  to  English  and    it  means  that  Islam  has  a
               then to the target language.          universal  program  and  it  is  a
                  During a translation, it looks     universal religion.
               for  patterns  in  millions  of          Islam    talks   to   humans
               documents to help decide on an        through  the  Quran,  its  sacred
               equivalence  which  is  the  best     book, which definitely should be
               and  the  most  accurate  fit  for    universal as well as the religion.
               phrases.                                 You see, to be universal is to
                  Since  its  accuracy  has  been    have  association  with  global
               criticized  and  ridiculed  on        items  and  issues  and  finally  a
               several       occasions,       In     global language like English. In
               November  2016,  Google  tend         other  words,  to  reach  Islam's
               to  switch  the  Google  translate    message  all  over  the  world  it
               to a neural machine translation       should  be  translated  into  other
               engine     -   Google     Neural      widespread languages.
               Machine Translation (GNMT) -             English  language  as  an
               which      translates     “whole      international language could be
               sentences at a time, rather than      one  other  thing  that  matters
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