Google Talk's translation bots

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Google Talk's translation bots

by Chris Gilmer Dec 19th 2007

Chatting with people who speak another language just got a lot easier thanks to Google's translation bots.

The translation bots provide a way to translate between Google Talk contacts in a group chat or as a translation tool. All you have to do is add one of 29 bots as a contact using their two letter language abbreviation. So in order to translate from an English conversation to a French one, you would add "en2fr@bot.talk.google.com" as a Google Talk contact. Now you can enter a group chat with a user who speaks French, bring the chat bot into the conversation, and the bot will translate everything you say into French and everything the other person says into English.

If you have a Blackberry, the Google Talk client will also function as a translator while on the go. It works the same way, by adding the appropriate translation bot to your chat conversation.

Google is also calling all developers to build their own XMPP based bots for such things as weather services and games that can be added into the Google Talk open protocol.

Tags: bots, google, talk, translation, xmpp

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael Rose said 5:47PM on 12-19-2007

If only they could somehow make a chat client that resembled a small fish and lived inside your ear...

ratul999 said 11:51PM on 1-04-2008

PLEASE HELP ME IN TRANSLATING THAI LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH I HAVE GOOGLE TOOLBAR ALREADY THANKS

RAJ said 6:05AM on 1-13-2008

PLEASE HELP ME IN TRANSLATING THAI LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH & VICEVERSA AWAITING YOUR REPLY

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