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Google Translation + Gmail help people communicate
2/09/2008 11:34:00 AM
We recently made our machine translation technology accessible from within Gmail and Google Talk, which gives mail and IM users instant access to translation capabilities at the point where they might most need them, e.g., when communicating with friends and colleagues around the world. If you find yourself wanting to translate a few words or short phrase, you can IM an appropriate chat-bot to obtain an immediate translation. As an example, the Google translation bot for going from English to Chinese is available as en2zh@bot.talk.google.com. In general, translation bots are named using two-letter codes for the source and target language.
Read HERE for the whole story.
I find this really cool. I think this is one step toward unified communication. Not unified in the technology sense, like where you have your voicemail forwarded to your email. But rather the ability to knock down language barriers such that I could be talking to someone and have a real time translation of what they are saying.
Just one more step toward making the global community more local.
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