martes, 19 de febrero de 2008

Google translation bot in Google Talk

Today, I discovered a nice way to have a text translated into other languages. Google translation are known not to be perfect as well as the rest, such as Babel Fish. However, if you could access it faster, would you use it more often? Regardless of the answer to this interesting question, Google decided to make their translation tool accessible from Gmail and Google Talk. The purpose is to make languages less of a barrier when it comes to chating with friends from around the world. The translation tool is integrated through a bot composed of two-letter language abbreviations as [fromLanguage]2[toLanguage]@bot.talk.google.com. So if you add a contact named de2en@bot.talk.google.com, you will be able to write a small text in english, and have it translated to german instantly as a chat response from your contact. Up to now, they have around 20 bots: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. Contacts don't have an image associated. They could have put them a flag or something... Just forget that, I find it pretty useful anyway.

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