Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Using google chat translator bots in group

Well, this is not related to programming but our fellow Bruno told me to put here and I can finally be out of the list of persons that never put something here!

In google chat, there are "bots" that you can invite, like below:

en2ja@bot.talk.google.com : english to japanese
en2pt@bot.talk.google.com : english to portuguese

The interesting trick is that you can invite them in a group chat, and
making them work as a real time translators.

This is very useful for example when 2 persons of different native languages
need to chat using english.
If a japanese and a brazilian need to chat, you can call en2ja@ and ja2en@ and
form a group chat of 4. The japanese guy can write in japanese and the brazilian guy can
write in english.
Of course, the translation is not perfect, but it helps.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice feature to help people of different nationalities to communicate to each other... We have this problem a lot at our company.

Thanks for sharing!