Tag: TRANSLATOR

As Twitter's worldwide growth continues, non-English-speakers are adopting it in larger numbers. And when we don't all speak the same language, it might sometimes be necessary to translate a tweet into something other than your native tongue. Twinslator makes that very easy, by providing what's essentially a mashup of Twitter and Google Translate. It's a translator you can tweet from. If you ...

As a protocol droid, C-3PO was the only character in Star Wars who ever really understood what poor R2-D2 was trying to say. But, with this neat little R2-D2 translator, you can speak R2's language, or at least get a good audio file of it. Put in any word, and it'll be translated into droid-speak for you to download as a ringtone-ready mp3 file. The most disappointing limitation is the 30 ...

I spend a lot of time on the phone with tech support personnel that don't understand ticket numbers and product codes I'm reading, so I find myself using the good old NATO phonetic alphabet fairly often. Sometimes, though, I have a hard time remembering some of the letters. P, for example, is not Peter, it's Papa. Thankfully, developer Nicholas Wagner has two handy utilities to help. Phonetic is ...

The biggest players in the online translation game are Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate. They both have their unique charms, but a site called Frengly might offer a little competition. Its selection of languages isn't quite as extensive as Google's -- you won't find Hindi, Latvian or Catalan, for example -- but it does offer more languages and more combinations than Babelfish. Frengly's ...

Unless you've been living under a scratching post lately, you've probably heard of lolcats and the shiny craze it has inspired. Visitors to I Can Has Cheezburger?, the website that started it all, often converse with each other in lolcat-speak, and some of the more rabid fans even use it when texting or instant messaging their significant others. Or, um, so we've heard. Anyway, if you're not ...

Version 1.0 of the OpenXML document translator launched this past Friday. This initiative translates native document formats into OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. The translator will work between Microsoft's OpenXML, and OpenOffice's OpenDocument formats. The project took eight months to complete and ensure it met a high quality and standards level. So far, over 8,000 copies of the translator ...

I try not to post every cool AJAX gadget that turns up, but this one, though just a proof of concept, is pretty fun: AJAX Translator translates the text that you type in almost-real-time. You choose your "in" and "out" languages, type into the top box, and as you type a translation is printed in the bottom box. Perhaps not especially useful, unless you're trying to communicate ...