Google Talk translates! Or ‘Google Talk ?????????’
Posted by Admin @ December 21st, 2007 in Search Engine Marketing
When you’re having a conversation with someone from a different country – which might happen regularly in our business – you’re sometimes lost for words. If you use Google Talk you can ask one of the Google Talk bots to translate the word you’re looking for. For example, when you want to ask Anna in Moscow to make you an awesome design of a manger for a wicked Christmas page, but she doesn’t really get what you want, you ask your friend en2ru@bot.talk.google.com, who will give you the Russian translation:
So Anna gets to work on a ‘?????’. Problem solved.
Google Talk now translates in 23 ways through their bots. 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 fr2de@bot.talk.google.com.
You add the bot address to your Google Talk contacts and start chatting with it. It will send you the translated text back immediately.
Happy translating!
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Brilliant, thanks for the heads-up