‘s new Crowdsource app wants human help for better translations Maps info

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Published 30 Aug 2016

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has a new Android app that solicits your help to improve its services like translations Maps info. 

Crowdsource lets you rate translations, validate image recognition, render a verdict on ’s other language efforts. You start off by telling what langues you’re fluent in, then you can choose from a batch of activities to engage with.

There’s a Contributions tab that keeps track of the number of tasks you’ve completed, but unfortunately there aren’t any rewards for donating your time talent to .

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Give Crowdsource a try if you want to offer your translation expertise.

The company has been known to dangle a carrot for users. For example, the cal Guides service lets you earn free Drive storage or Opinion Rewards, which offers you ay Store credits in exchange for answering survey questions. Since there’s a tracker for your contributions, perhaps this will change down the line.

Crowdsource is available in the ay Store now.

y this matters: is making machine learning a major focus of its future efforts. But that still requires a human touch, since language is filled with a considerable amount of nuance conjecture. Those are areas that algorithms don’t always do well with, so getting feedback from living people is valuable information for .