Google Translate becomes even more useful

Posted May 8th 2008 9:30AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google

Google has udated its language translation page, adding support for Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. That brings the total number of language you can translate to and from to 24.

But the most useful feature of the new Google Translate is the automatic language detection feature. You no longer have to select the language of a web page in order to translate it to English. Just choose "Detect language" and Google will attempt to figure out the source language for you and translate the page or text to the language of your choice.

Of course, the machine translation is still far from perfect. But awkward phrases and baffling idiom translations are a small price to pay for being able to read Norwegian newspapers.

[via Google Operating System]

Tags: google, google-translate, translation

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5-10-2008 @ 9:29AM

mofle said...

Why would you want to read Norwegian newspapers?

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