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Google Adds Chat to Translator Kit

Google announced today that it has released chat in the Google Translator Toolkit. "Collaboration is an important part of translation," says Kartik Singh, Software Engineer for the Translator Toolkit. "Whether you work with editors to translate documents, customers to clarify terms or project managers to meet deadlines, working with other translators is key to making high-quality translations." "Just...

Google Launches New Transliteration Tool

Google has launched a "new and improved" version of Google Transliteration as a Google Labs experiment. Users can simply go to google.com/transliterate and type in the box to have their words converted to the proper language. There are 17 that are currently supported. Google explains: Using Google Transliteration you can convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language....

Twitter Expands Into More Languages

Update 4 : Twitter is now supporting the German language. Update 3 : Twitter is now supporting the Italian language. Update 2 : Twitter is now supporting the French language. Update: Twitter is now supporting the Spanish language. Original Article: Twitter announced that it intends to roll out the service in the French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages. Currently it’s...

Facebook Gives Translators Awards for Their Services

Facebook has launched an award system for translators, where those who translate for the social network can get special icons as they accomplish specific milestones. Awards are grouped into into the categories of voting participation, words published, and translations published. "Since launching our Translations application two years ago, more than 300,000 people have answered the call to contribute...

Google Puts Its Own Dictionary in the Spotlight

Google Dictionary is in the spotlight because Google is now using it for its "definition" link on search results pages for word searches. Previously Google pointed users to Answers.com. Mark Milian at the LA Times brought this change to the industry’s attention, saying that Google was "quietly" rolling out its own dictionary. Google Dictionary has actually been around for...

New Google Feature Could Steal Some of Bing’s Travel Thunder

Google has launched a new "Translated Search" tool as one of the search engines search options. Google’s search options can currently be accessed by clicking "show options" on any results page, once a search has been performed (although you may not even have to do that soon). The idea is that searchers can more easily find and read content written in other languages. Google...

Google Translate Gets a Makeover and More Features

Google has launched some new features for Google Translate, while altering the look of the service. In addition to redesigning the site, the new features are aimed at making it faster and easier to translate text between 2,550 language pairs. Google Translate works for 51 languages, representing 98% of Internet users, according to the company. One new feature is the ability to translate instantly....

New Google Labs: Related Links and Script Converter

Google has released a couple of new Labs projects. The first one is called Script converter, and the second one is called Related Links. The Script Converter Lab lets users read the text of any script in the supported languages, which currently consist of: - Hindi - Bengali - English - Gujarati - Kannada - Malayalam - Marathi - Nepali - Tamil - Telugu All you have to do is enter text or a web address...

Google Can Translate Between Over 10,000 Language Pairs

Google announced today that it has added 285 languages to the Google Translator Toolkit. It now has a total of 345, and Google says it can translate between 10,664 language pairs. The interface itself is availalbe in 35 languages. "At Google, we’re focusing on how Translator Toolkit can help preserve and revitalize small and minority languages," Google says. "Minority languages,...

Facebook Resurrects the Latin Language

Facebook has added Latin to its list of languages that the social network now supports (there are more than 70 of them). Azeri, Faroese, Georgian and Nepali have also been launched. "To students of Latin, the availability of the language on Facebook may be just what’s needed to narrow the distance between themselves and the venerable language. After all, the experience of studying Latin...

Facebook Translates Websites and Apps

Facebook has announced translations for Facebook Connect, which a spokesperson for the company tells WebProNews, "simplifies and streamlines the process of translating a website into any of the more than 65 different languages Facebook currently supports." "By opening the same framework Facebook used to translate its own site, passionate communities in countries around the world can...

Google Translates 9 New Languages

Google announced today that it has added nine new languages to Google Translate. That brings the total number of languages supported up to 51, as well as 2,550 language pairs, including all 23 official EU languages. "We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we’re pretty...

Google Docs Takes On Language Translation

Language barriers can make communicating the simplest things painful; no one wants to do a sort of hokey pokey just to find the nearest restroom.  However, Google’s attempting to leap way past basic human needs and help with complicated manuscripts by introducing translation technology to Google Docs. In an email to WebProNews, a Google spokesperson explained, "[W]e’re releasing...