Google’s language translation bots
Posted on | October 30, 2008 |
In the older days, there was Altavista Babelfish, now known as Yahoo Babelfish for translating peices of text or websites from one language to another. It worked for me as i was able to register for an email account at GMX.net - a german portal and an email service provider.
If copy pasting works for you, try out Yahoo’s Babelfish translation service or Google translate - web interfaces to their translation engines. If you are looking for a chat bot that translates text for you - try out Google’s language translation bots.
Using Google translate bots is easy. Just add the required chat bot as a buddy in your GTalk client, and start typing messages. The bot will use google’s translation engine to reply back with translated text.
How to identify which bot to add as a buddy?
Follow this rule to identify the required bot. Identify the language of the text which has to be translated (this may be little tricky). Let’s assume we want to translage a snippet of text written in German. Two letter language code for German is “de“. Similarly, let’s assume target language is English, two letter code for which is “en“. Now the GTalk id for this bot would be:
- de2en@bot.talk.google.com
Replace the two letter language codes to any source/destination language combinations, and a bot will be available at your service. A list of google translation bots is also available.
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