The best thing about Google translate is the face that you can download a language package to your mobile, which then enables you to use it even with out internet connectivity. It readily integrates with Google Lens which enables you to translate any text on a billboard, book etc into your language just by aiming the camera. Its best application its ability to enable a user to have live conversation with a speaker of another language, by adapting alternating languages, just by listening to the sentence and then giving an audio output. Along with input phrases/ sentences, it also provides its users to translate a whole documet into another language. It also transcribe the speech input into the same language and give voice output of written text.
It enables its users to translate to and from language in to any other language rather than only english like most of its counterparts. It supports more than 100 major languages from around the world. It is completely free and has a very simple user interface which futher add to its easy of use. Google Translate is by far the most excellent software that I have used so far for translation purposes.
It has made travelling to countries with language different than ours easy and has broken the language barriers that prevented visitors from communicating with locals. I have been using Google translate for quite a lot of time and love it for its ease of use and the way it provides instant translations with great accuracy.