Thanks to you guys, Translation Guy is the people’s choice in the Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Blogs competition. So we came third, even though none of the other blogs came even close in terms of response from readers. The judges counted popularity as only 50% of the final score in order to control a selection process that best suited […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Translate just gets better and better in its own increasingly horrible and creepy way. Fergus Henderson posted recently on the Google Blog about Google Translate’s new text-to-speech integration. “One of the popular features of Google Translate is the ability to hear translations spoken out loud (“text-to-speech”) by clicking the speaker icon beside some translations. […]
Continue ReadingNow, riding a bike, that’s something you don’t forget, no matter how long you’ve been off two wheels. A few years ago we rented some bikes in Amsterdam and, even after all those long years without two wheels between my legs, I found I could still push a pedal or two around and about the […]
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