Add a translation widget to your web page
The beauty of the web is that your personal homepage could have an international audience. Of course, visitors from Russia, Korea, or Japan might have a hard time reading your English-only website. There are plenty of tools out there that let proactive internet users translate a web page. But you can also make it easy on visitors by adding translation widgets to your blog or web site. This week ...
The arms race between Microsoft and Google has just gone up another notch with the release of Windows Live Translator. Much like Google's Translate Tool, Windows Live Translator lets you enter a block of text for translation from one language or another, or you can enter a URL to have an entire web page translated. Also like Google, Microsoft's web-based translation tool is powered by Systran. ...
Google has added a new feature to its translation tool: "Suggest a better translation." When you're reading a Google translation, the new tool gives you a chance to catch mistakes and send them to Google, which will help the developers improve translations down the road. It's not clear if this is a learning feature of the translation software or if a real person will read your suggestion and ...
A company called
AvMedia has released an open-source translating proxy for Yahoo!
Messenger. It does translation between English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese using Google's web
translation services. Considering the state of machine (or at least Google) translation, this is bound to cause all
sorts of comical misunderstandings. [Via Slashdot] ...





