1. Language Translation
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Dec 20, 1997
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Last edited Dec 21, 1997
Hello All,
I came across a new service on Alta Vista today.
It might be useful for people on this list who don't
know English very well, but know French, German,
Italian, Portuguese or Spanish.
You just cut and paste some text
(such as a message on this mailing list)
or type in a URL, and it will translate the
text, or the entire Web page for you.
The layout and graphics on the Web page
are all the same, just the text is in the
language that you choose.
It's just a machine translation, so I imagine
it is pretty bad, but it may be helpful.
Just for fun here is my message in Spanish:
Hola Todos,
Vine a travis de un nuevo servicio en Alta Vista hoy.
Puede ser que sea ztil
para la gente en esta lista que no sabe inglis
muy bien, pero sabe francis,
aleman, italiano, portuguis o espaqol.
Usted corte y goma justos un poco de texto
(tal como un mensaje en esta
lista el enviar) o pulsa adentro un URL,
y traducira el texto, o el Web page
entero para usted. La disposicisn y los
graficos en el Web page son todo el
igual, apenas el texto esta en el language que usted elige.
Es justo una traduccisn automatica, asm que me
imagino que es bastante malo,
pero puede ser provechoso.
Apenas para la diversisn aqum esta mi mensaje
en espaqol: .....
The translator is at:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
(Note: include the ? character on the end of ...translate)
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
2. Language Translation
Not bad, but it garbles all the accented characters.
Colin Taylor
3. Re: Language Translation
>It's just a machine translation, so I imagine
>it is pretty bad, but it may be helpful.
>
>Just for fun here is my message in Spanish:
.... Quite funny translation !
(but you can get the idea)
I guess it would be useful to some... but I've never seen a transalation
utility (this one, Spanish Assistant, etc..) that handles correctly
technical words or terms.
