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Journalism 2.0 and Translation

August 17, 2012 -By: -In: Machine Translation - Comments Off on Journalism 2.0 and Translation

Back in the day at CNN, you could be sure that field producer in Moscow spoke Russian. For old-school foreign correspondents, it took a second language to get the story. In the new media, the social media, that kind of local knowledge is both no longer sufficient and no longer required for breaking news argues […]

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Siri and the Cell Phone Fetish

December 3, 2011 -By: -In: Machine Translation - Comments Off on Siri and the Cell Phone Fetish

We hold our hand-held devices close to our heart. Everywhere you go, half the people you see do not see you, completely enthralled as they are by their smartphones, with eyes for nothing but their object of desire, their soul mate, whispering in the ear piece, caressing the touch screen, digital lovers transported to their […]

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The Best Online Machine Translation

November 2, 2011 -By: -In: Machine Translation - 18 comments

The word-witch-doctors over at Bab.la have cooked up a big machine translation showdown to test which is the best — Prompt, Systrans, Google or Bing. The challenge: 500 sentences in 10 languages per pair, English to French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, two-way. Not back translated, but different translations going in either direction. Results were scored […]

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Google Translate Abuse

June 1, 2011 -By: -In: Machine Translation - 32 comments

These damned kids and all their boop-de-boop beatbox foolishness. It’s an outrage the way they are misusing a serious machine translation tool like Google for their antics instead of for serious, possibly lifesaving translation. As reported early on by Translation Guy, these so-called “hep cats” have been laying down musical rifts by typing in nonsense […]

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Google Translate Beatbox

January 12, 2011 -By: -In: Machine Translation - Comments Off on Google Translate Beatbox

The audio feature in Google Translate is just the cat’s meow. And that’s not the usual Translation Guy archaism. I mean that literally. One, it sounds like cats meowing. And two, as the owner of a service that also offers telephone interpreters, it is a Googlish dagger pointed straight at the heart of my business, […]

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Google Translates Dead Languages Better

October 14, 2010 -By: -In: Machine Translation - Comments Off on Google Translates Dead Languages Better

The article Google Translates Dead Languages Better was originally posted on Technorati on October 11, 2010 by featured Technorati author, Kenneth Richard Clark. Google’s newest machine translation language is Latin. The announcement was posted on the Official Google Blog in Latin, and when it was translated using the Google Latin machine translation tool, the results […]

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Resistance is Futile. Google Translate Text-to-Speech Now in 34 Languages.

May 20, 2010 -By: -In: Machine Translation - 24 comments

Google 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. […]

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Google carries the barrier of the language!

February 15, 2010 -By: -In: Machine Translation - Comments Off on Google carries the barrier of the language!

Google carries the barrier of the language with the translating telephone. Google is developing software for the first capable assembly to translate foreign tongues almost instantly as the fish bebble and that is all, to speak with Scott in the Galaxy…. Huh? This blog is supposed to be about the Google Voice translation announcement last […]

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