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Remember those sci-fi movies and books where humans and interplanetary aliens interact and speak to each other using electronic helmet translating devices? If not, then maybe you're too young but anyway Google has taken the first step towards making on the fly real-time dual-language conversations a reality.
The new Google translation bots can be used with
Google Talk for conversations between 24 different language pairs. A
really interesting application, however, is that it's possible to take
the translation system on the road using a pocket device such as a
BlackBerry.
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
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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 .
David Bass
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