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VIRTUALISATION Google Talkabout speaks to me with new chat bots
VIRTUALISATION Google Talkabout speaks to me with new chat bots | Google Talkabout speaks to me with new chat bots |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 20 December 2007 | |
  
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To make your translator as universal as possible, just add any of the 24 other translation bots to the system. They're named using two-letter language abbreviations as "[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com", and the supported language pairs are: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. So, for French to German translation, talk to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it While this is basically so far just a means of conducting dual-language IM text chats, it's not too hard to imagine eventually developing voice recognition for the system, making the sci-fi language translator of the past a reality in the not too distant future. More (but all that much more) info can be found here . |
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