Talk to Me: 5 Great Translation Tools
Tim Ferriss believes you can learn (but not master) a language in 2-12 months. But what if you don't have that much time? Whether you've managed to find a last minute travel deal or you just want to welcome your new neighbors down the hall, below are a few translation tools to aid you in your quest to communicate.
1. Forvo: Forvo is a fantastic crowdsourced language site where users submit, rate and share audio clips in order to practice proper language pronunciation. One great feature is that audio files are mapped according to the speaker's region. This means you won't make the mistake of speaking le français du Québec to Parisians.
2. Babel Fish: Human translation will always triumph over online tools. Nevertheless, unless you're a diplomat, it's unlikely that you've got a polyglot at your disposal. One of the most established online translation tools, Babel Fish allows users to translate large blocks of text and URLs. This is particularly useful to understand hotel websites, online menus and directions. Microsoft's Bing Translator offers similar capabilities with the added ability to automatically detect the initial language.
3. Google Translate: Google Translate and Babel Fish are very similar services. However, Google recently added Google Translate functionality to Gmail. Now you can instantly translate your emails by choosing a language from the drop down menu.
4. TweetTranslate: TweetTranslate is a great service for those interested in restaurant and entertainment recommendations. The service integrates with your Twitter profile and allows you to translate your tweets into more than 40 languages.
5.BabelWith.Me: RWW first covered this cool chat translator a few weeks ago. BabelWith.Me allows users to chat in more than 45 different languages. This is a great tool for negotiating room and guide rates.
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Your picture says "6" and the article title says "5." Is the disparity on purpose?
One Tool To Rule them All.
Yahoo Pipes. You can aggregate Foreign Language Blogs and have Babel Fish auto translate the Excerpts.
I guess you could do the it in reverse with RWW. You could have it autotranlsate into hindi, or Japanese or Chinese and you could have a landing page with FF realtime updating it.
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Nice to see a Portuguese example! :-)
Professional human translation can not be replaced with translation tools for most needs.
There are some innovative models online which provide professional translation at a high quality and fast turnaround times ( http://www.tomedes.com for example)
I just like google's translation tool.
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Translate that !
Can't believe you didn't mention us!
We've got a couple of really exciting new services coming out soon to help people translate informal texts online - properly, by humans.
Until then, we still think we're one of the more interesting translation sites out there :)
I prefer google translation tool. I used it on some of my sites. It works great.
Mama Translation (http://www.mamatranslation.com) is an interesting alternative to the aforementioned websites. It allows you to translate between 2 languages as you type in the same box.
We are more for pronunciations but it´s great to be on this list! Hope to hear you in Forvo :)
Google translate is the best.
There is NO need to mention the others.
New one:
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The power of Google Translate with more than 150M human translated examples.
Marco
Wow! I'm speechless. I just discovered this chat site in Digital Point Forums and it blew me away. You can translate your conversation instantly in the chat room while you chat...and into any one of 45 different languages. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before everybody is talking about this site. This will be a good example of what we call "viral marketing".
nice iformation..
but still use google's translation tool for now
thank you
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Google translation tools is good it is used by wide range of people all over the world.
Bing translation another service from Microsoft is also equally good. I think Microsoft has launched this service in capitation with Google.
Tweettranslate is great it helps me every time.