GoogleTalk/Gmail Add Real-Time Translation
Based announcement post on the Google Talk blog, the company introduced a new translation feature to its Google Talk chat client. The new tool can translate a phrase or paragraph to a different language in real time.
There are 30 total language bots . The bots are named according to their translation duty, such as en2ko@bot.talk.google.com, signifying an English to Korean translation. Users must add a bot to their Gmail contact list in order to communicate with the bot or use it in a group chat. Once added though, these bots will do their job both in Gmail and other Google Talk implementations like the iGoogle start page.
Using a bot for simple translation is as easy as starting a chat with it and typing your phrase, sentence or paragraph. To translate a chat between you and at least one other person, bots for each translation direction will need to be added. For example: if an English speaker wants to use Google Talk to speak with a Chinese speaker, each participant will need to add the relevant translation bot to their contact list, or one participant can add both as contacts, then bring them into the chat. Either way, this end of the process can be a bit clunky, and there is much room for improvement. One way would be to simply check each user’s default language and automatically add bots (or at least offer) when two different native language speakers begin to chat.
Hopefully, this will bring more user to Google IM system. But I am wondering how much of this will be lost in translation!
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[Via Arstechnica]
What when I translate my letter, and try to G mail it, I get a blank send page and my letter does not appear to be g mailed to the receiptant.
Thank you ! Greg