Windows 10: Google Translate adds five languages

Source: Google Translate adds five languages

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WIn 10 and IE 11 Google translate reports translating site but nothing happens.

Hi John,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate your interest in Windows 10. We sincerely regret for the inconvenience caused.

I suggest you to add the Google translate website in compatibility mode and check if it helps:

Follow the steps:

• Open internet explorer.
• Click on ALT key in key board.
• Click on tools tab
• Select compatibility view settings
• Add the website
• Click ok.

Hope this information helps. Post back with updated issue details for further help.

 

Google Talk now features real-time translation

Google's instant messaging program, Talk, now features real-time translation via twenty-three 'language bots' you can add to your group chats. Does this bring us a step closer to the Star Trek 'universal translator'? Google has been offering translation services for blocks of text (and, for that matter, entire websites) for quite some time, of course. While it's always been possible to use this service to translate your instant messages, it's hardly been practical: type response, translate, copy, paste into Google Talk, send, wait for reply, copy, paste into Google Translate, translate. The new 'bots' introduced by Google use a protocol called XMPP which is open to all. The usage of the bots is certainly simple. Each bot takes the form of [language]2[language]@bot.talk.google.com; just replace the two languages with the standard two letter abbreviations for each language. To translate from German to English, for example, add L: de2en@bot.talk.google.com to your conversation. It would probably also help to add L: en2de@bot.talk.google.com as well, if you want to have a hope of understanding the reply.

The translation technology is still less than perfect. To give you an example, the simple sentence “Google has launched a new translation service that works, and lets me be understood in multiple languages” translated to Russian via the service gives “Google выпустил новую службы перевода, что работает и позволяет мне быть на нескольких языках”, which translates back to English as “Google launched a new translation service that works and allows me to be in several languages.”

Understandable, yes. An exact translation of the intent of the original, no. Useful for casual chatting, certainly. Reliable enough to conduct an urgent business deal with your broker in Japan over Google Talk? I think you'd better not sack your official translator just yet.

The late, lamented Douglas Adams once offered the following titbit in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series: “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” A prescient warning, perhaps?

Source: bit-tech

 

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• Only the tooltip texts will be translated (like the one in the screenshot, mouseover for entries in the main window and for the sensor labels).
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• Please make sure you use proper spelling, grammar etc.
• Translated texts will be provided to TPU free of charge and become property of TPU

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You are free to use the target language in your discussions in that thread, but please use english if you want me to understand something *Wink