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Google Translate, the challenge… Over a year ago, Google Translate launched, and the language sites started buzzing at the possibilities. My contributions were Thai Translation: Google Translation & Thai Dictionaries and Google Translates Documents and Email Too and Thai Google Translate: Will Crowdsourcing Work. During it all, Jeff Gray mentioned the below: …the sheer volume [...]

Google Translate does more than before… Google Translate has added three more items of interest: Translations as you type: Type your text in the main box and the translation appears below. Romanization option: the ability to receive transliteration instead. Text-to-speech: Right now this if for English only. For more, check out the Official Google Blog: [...]

Google Translate, I challenge you… In my posts, Google Translates Documents and Email Too and Thai Google Translate: Will Crowdsourcing Work, we got to discussing how Google Translate takes online translation beyond Babel Fish by allowing users to correct bad translations. In the comments, Jeff Gray put this bug in my ear: …the sheer volume [...]

Google Translate takes Babel Fish one step further… In a previous post – Google Translates Documents and Email Too – we got into a discussion about the possible crowdsourcing aspects built into Google Translate. Andy said: Even ten years after Babelfish was first online the quality of these free online translators hasn’t improved much. Even [...]

Google Translate does documents too… Over the weekend Google added a new service to Google Translate: upload a document. What you do is select ‘upload a document’, then browse for a file to translate. Right quick your translation pops up in a browser window, but minus your original formatting. Google Translate can also be used [...]

Babeling away… can you hear me?… About BabelWith.me BabelWith.me is a simple, free group chat tool that lets you communicate in one language or multiple languages (up to 45). Enjoy real-time conversations without language barriers – BabelWith.me automatically translates each message as you type. BabelWith.me most likely uses Google Translate, so it should create many [...]