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The phrase "a computer to translate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a computer's function or capability to perform translation tasks, whether for languages or data formats.
Example: "I need a computer to translate the document from Spanish to English."
Alternatives: "a machine for translation" or "a device to interpret".
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Or consider programming a computer to translate from Chinese to English.
The DEKA Arm hooks up to the remaining muscle of a patient's upper arm and uses a computer to translate electric signals from muscle movements in the remaining arm into motions delicate enough to pick up an egg without crushing it.
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Except you had to be chained to your computer to translate something.
Machine translation – the use of computers to translate automatically among human languages – is an alluring prospect, one that for more than 50 years has fascinated researchers, inspired idealists and opportunists, and provoked unease among professional translators.
At the time, Mercer was part of a team pioneering the use of computers to translate languages.
One simple filtering method is called "DNS poisoning", in which an ISP manipulates the tables that allow computers to translate human-friendly URLs (such as http://www.economist.com) into the numerical addresses that computers use (such as 46.137.92.159).
Some of them are gorgeously crafted, like this children's book, but fancy styling can make it difficult for computers to translate the books into an indexable digital text.
In turn, this has spawned a wealth of new translation approaches.The Pentagon poured millions of dollars into efforts to get computers to translate Russian sentences into English.
The Pentagon poured millions of dollars into efforts to get computers to translate Russian sentences into English.
For his research on improving the ability of computers to translate one language to another, Hayden C. Metsky, 17, of Millburn High School in Millburn, N.J., won $10,000.
SINCE its earliest days, machine translation the use of computers to translate documents from one language to another automatically—has suffered from exaggerated claims and impossible expectations.
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