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20th Dec 2007, 13:24
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Google Talk now features real-time translation
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12...w_translates/1
Google's IM package now features real-time translation to and from multiple languages. Next step: a small fish you slip into your ear? 
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20th Dec 2007, 13:51
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haha, that's awesome. I swear google's devs just do this stuff for funsies
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20th Dec 2007, 14:03
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i agree. and the top management saw that this funsies are the stuff that make or break google, so the funsies dev got lotsa budget on their funsies project im sure.
woohoo i used funsies alot. word of the day. thx will 
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20th Dec 2007, 16:27
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Interesting use of the technology they have, but I cant see it being that useful for casual chat, as for the most part, I imagine anybody on your instant messenger contacts list would be speaking your language anyway.
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20th Dec 2007, 22:43
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how good are the translations??? I'm betting not great
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20th Dec 2007, 23:09
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21st Dec 2007, 04:10
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What many people who only speak one language don't realize is that languages don't exactly match up like you think they would. quite simply put some words that exist in English to mean one thing will take 2 or 3 words to describe in Russian or Japanese. also some other languages have completely different words that do not exist in English but like the other example have to take several words to describe. many times this description is left up to the interpretation of the translator and oftentimes means something completely different in another part of the same country. Europe is a good example of how the same language can change from city center to township or whatever.
while these translators get us closer and closer the only way that they are going to get perfect is if they hire linguists and have them work hand in hand with the programmers so the software can decipher those small meanings and get them right for each region. then again, that's just what i would do. the way that these translators work now it looks like someone just referenced a English to Spanish/German/French/Russian/etc dictionary or whatever.
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21st Dec 2007, 08:04
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translators are buggy as hell in my experience for the reason that MrBurritoMan said.
one day I got bored and decided to put some stuff I had written through a few different languages and some how "we know that what we no longer face" turned to "Soaps derive the fact that what we" when I looped back to english.
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21st Dec 2007, 18:31
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I'm not a modder.
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^lol
Shame all the good feature are in the online Google Talk gadget. Its cool, but I prefer the standalone program
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22nd Dec 2007, 01:01
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inch-perfect
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Automated translators work respectably well for Latin-derived languages. But languages from the North, Far East, and Middle-East Asia are a definite no-go.
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