<s>
Yandex	B-General_Concept
Translate	I-General_Concept
(	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
web	O
service	O
provided	O
by	O
Yandex	O
,	O
intended	O
for	O
the	O
translation	O
of	O
text	O
or	O
web	O
pages	O
into	O
another	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
service	O
uses	O
a	O
self-learning	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
,	O
developed	O
by	O
Yandex	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
September	O
2017	O
,	O
Yandex.Translate	B-General_Concept
switched	O
to	O
a	O
hybrid	O
approach	O
incorporating	O
both	O
statistical	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
and	O
neural	B-General_Concept
machine	I-General_Concept
translation	I-General_Concept
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
translation	O
page	O
first	O
appeared	O
in	O
2009	O
,	O
utilizing	O
PROMT	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
also	O
built	O
into	O
Yandex	B-Language
Browser	I-Language
itself	O
,	O
to	O
assist	O
in	O
translation	O
for	O
websites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yandex.Translate	B-General_Concept
has	O
some	O
languages	O
that	O
are	O
missing	O
from	O
Google	B-Application
Translate	I-Application
,	O
such	O
as	O
Russian	O
national	O
minority	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
an	O
app	O
for	O
devices	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
iOS	B-Application
software	O
,	O
Windows	B-Protocol
Phone	I-Protocol
and	O
Android	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
You	O
can	O
listen	O
to	O
the	O
pronunciation	O
of	O
the	O
translation	O
and	O
the	O
original	O
text	O
using	O
a	O
text	B-Application
to	I-Application
speech	I-Application
converter	O
built	O
in	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Yandex.Translate	B-General_Concept
,	O
like	O
other	O
automatic	O
translation	O
tools	O
,	O
has	O
its	O
limitations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
online	O
service	O
was	O
first	O
introduced	O
,	O
the	O
head	O
of	O
Yandex.Translate	B-General_Concept
,	O
Alexei	O
Baitin	O
,	O
stated	O
that	O
although	O
machine	O
translation	O
cannot	O
be	O
compared	O
to	O
a	O
literary	O
text	O
,	O
the	O
translations	O
produced	O
by	O
the	O
system	O
can	O
provide	O
a	O
convenient	O
option	O
for	O
understanding	O
the	O
general	O
meaning	O
of	O
the	O
text	O
in	O
a	O
foreign	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
free	O
version	O
for	O
users	O
,	O
there	O
is	O
a	O
commercial	O
API	B-Application
online	O
translator	O
(	O
free	O
up	O
to	O
10	O
million	O
characters	O
,	O
then	O
paid	O
)	O
,	O
designed	O
primarily	O
for	O
the	O
localization	O
of	O
sites	O
of	O
Internet	O
shops	O
and	O
travel	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
mobile	O
app	O
for	O
iOS	B-Application
is	O
available	O
for	O
the	O
transliteration	O
of	O
the	O
Arabic	O
,	O
Armenian	O
,	O
Chinese	O
(	O
Pinyin	O
)	O
,	O
Georgian	O
,	O
Greek	O
,	O
Hebrew	O
,	O
Japanese	O
,	O
Korean	O
and	O
Persian	O
languages	O
;	O
</s>
<s>
photo	O
text	O
translation	O
feature	O
(	O
uses	O
its	O
own	O
OCR	O
(	O
optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
)	O
technology	O
)	O
–	O
in	O
apps	O
for	O
mobile	O
phones	O
;	O
</s>
