Google is developing “speech-to-speech translation” software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly. The basic system is expected to be ready within a couple of years. The new technology combines machine translation technology and voice recognition technology to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language. Read full story »
Google Docs now offers “Translate document” tool to enable Doc users cross the language barrier. Users can send documents in a specific language to anyone and have it translated into teir preferred langugage by the receiver. The content can now be translated into 42 different languages, including Hindi, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and French. Read full story »
Google Talk has announced Indic Transliteration Bots recently. The transliteration bots converts text from English to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil or Telugu.
You can invite the bot as a guest to your chat session. The bot transliterates what you type in English to the right local language.
Google India already provides this transliteration service that allows you … Read full story »
A few months back, Google Talk introduced translation bots feature, which would help you translate texts directly from your Google Talk window.
Now I see that English to Hindi translation bot (en2hi@bot.talk.google.com) and Hindi to English translation bot (hi2en@bot.talk.google.com) are also active in the Google Talk client. Add as contacts in your Google Talk and … Read full story »
Google Talk Team announced translation bots for many languages to help you translate texts using your Google Talk interface. If you don’t know, a (ro)bot is a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and provides some fun or useful functionality.
In the first post (see GB), the list included Hindi to English translation … Read full story »
