Topic: Google Translate tool expanded

[Clive]

Google has added 10 new languages to its online translation tool.

You will now be able to convert snippets of text or entire web pages to or from languages including Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish and Swedish.

The new additions take the total number of languages supported by Google Translate to 23.

Google acknowledged that the system might not be perfect but as with all Google products it is constantly being revised and tweaked.

"While our system is quite good, we know it's not perfect. Machine translation is a hard problem, but it plays an important role in helping people access content they might otherwise be unable to read. We're constantly working to improve the quality," Jimmy Chin, product manager at Google said.

Google also offers an embedded tool for website owners that allows visitors to translate the site into other languages.


http://translate.google.com/translate_t

[sam]

cool! I'll have to play. A good test is to to process it into various languages and see what the english is at the end!

[Rik]

Multi-lingual Chinese whispers, eh?

[Sandra]

Can it teach British teenagers to speak english properly though 

[GillE]

It works with "Ich bin ein Berlinner", which is more than JFK managed to achieve

 

[Reno]

It makes a real nice little proxy too.   

[Simon]

Can it teach British teenagers to speak english properly though 

Uuuh?

[sam]

what, like text speak to English? 

[Rik]

Innit.