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Most Google products, especially the ones as popular as Gmail, are available in a lot of languages, the vast majority of internet users can find their native or prefered language there.
But that doesn't mean it can't add more. The latest two additions to the list of Gmail translations are Welsh and Latin ... |
25 May 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Twitter has been working on translating the site in as many languages as possible, for the past couple of years. The Twitter Translation Center, its crowdsourcing translation tool has been doing great so far, churning out translations for new languages in weeks.
Now, Twitter is adding six more languages to the cente... |
17 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Twitter is not the only one boasting about translations, Google+ is boosting its internationalization efforts as well. In fact, it's doing even better than Twitter, Google's social network has been translated into 60 languages at this point, 32 more than Twitter.
"We already supported 44 languages, but now... |
7 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Twitter is slowly but surely becoming a true Tower of Babel, it is now available in several more languages opening up the service to even more people around the world. Twitter already "speaks" plenty of languages, 24 to be exact, but it is now debuting translated versions of the site in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu... |
7 March 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google Analytics is undergoing a massive revamp. The new Analytics has been in the works for about a year now, more if you count internal development and testing. It's been available to all users for quite a while now and Google has been adding more features, such as flow visualizations in the meantime.
But the... |
9 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it has added support for right-to-left languages, and there are quite a few of them, in the Twitter Translation Center, its crowdsourcing tool for translations.Translations in almost two dozen languages have been created via the Translation Center and Twitter is able to use tens of millions... |
25 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it's now available in a brand new language, Swedish. The announcement is not entirely unexpected, Twitter had said that it was one of the languages available for translation in the Translation Center.In fact, Swedish is late as most of the other languages that were made available in th... |
7 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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In the latest translation update, Twitter announced that several new languages were on their way. Now, some of those have been made available and users can now switch to Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Polish to use as the default language on the popular site.
While Twitter hasn't had too much trouble finding suc... |
22 December 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Google has made a small update to Google Translate, making it easier to switch between translations to and from different languages. There are now tabs for both sides of the translation pair, pre-filled with the languages used the most.
There are three tabs for each side and the language selection on each seems t... |
14 October 2011
09:36 GMT |
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Facebook has long relied on the 'kindness of strangers' for translations, or, put another way, it crowdsourced the translation much of the site's content in most of the languages that's available in.
Facebook, like Twitter which is doing the same, can rely on the size of its audience to find pe... |
7 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Twitter has been moving to offer its site in more languages. With the help of volunteers, Twitter is now available in 17 languages. Of course, Twitter is not stopping here and more are on the way. The latest update brought support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay.
The Twitter.com si... |
15 September 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Twitter is slowly becoming a multi-lingual site. With the help of volunteer translators, the site is adding more and more languages to its localization options. Now, Twitter has added Dutch and Indonesian, completely with the help of enthusiastic users.
"With today’s launch of Dutch and Indonesian, Twitter h... |
2 August 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Want to help improve localized versions of the Windows operating system? Then Microsoft is willing to hear your input on the terminology used for the platform in no less than 25 languages. Microsoft’s Palle Petersen revealed that the software giant is looking for feedback on Windows translations for a total of... |
4 March 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Twitter has been building an international audience, little by little, but, though it has managed to expand so far, it needs more translations to move beyond the wave of early adopters in each country and capture the mainstream audience. In the past, it has relied on its users for this, and it's now doing it aga... |
15 February 2011
01:58 GMT |
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Twitter has now added another language to the list of official translations, Korean. Users in South Korea will be able to access the site as well as the official mobile apps in their native language and use the local script. South Korea was chosen since the site has seen a huge growth in popularity there in the last ... |
19 January 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Google Translate is introducing a subtle but important new feature, the possibility to alter the translation on the fly and pick the best version from several options for each of the words translated. You can enter your own version if the ones listed aren't accurate. The feature also gives a glimpse at how the t... |
16 December 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Crowdsourcing can easily break all of the limits associated with the traditional translation process, high costs, restricted resources, the inherent errors caused by the discrepancies between linguistic skills and domain knowledge. I had a chance to chat with Rob Vandenberg, President and CEO of Lingotek recently, a... |
30 October 2010
07:24 GMT |
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Google is making the most of its translation technology by introducing it to more and more of its products. The latest to take advantage of it is Google Docs. Users can now translate documents from inside the editor. There are 53 languages to choose from, but other than the convenience, the feature doesn’t add ... |
28 July 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Yahoo revealed a revamped News Search page in the US a couple of months back, and the company is now ready to roll out the redesign to more languages. Speakers of French, Spanish, German, and Indonesian in 11 countries will now get access to the new site and all the brand-new features introduced. Yahoo says this is j... |
3 June 2010
11:39 GMT |
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Google has added five more languages to its popular Google Translate tool. These languages are now in the early stages of support, so translations may not be as polished or as accurate as the other languages in Translate. With the addition of Azerbaijani, Armenian, Basque, Urdu and Georgian to the list of supported l... |
14 May 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Google Goggles, the visual search service Google launched in late 2009, has just got better, with the addition of a new appealing feature: Goggles translation. What this new functionality is all about includes the possibility to translate text from various languages around the world. In other words, in case one trav... |
7 May 2010
02:59 GMT |
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Machine translation holds a lot of promise and it has certainly progressed in recent years thanks to efforts from companies like Google. But is it good enough to handle hundreds of people talking in several different languages and allow them to understand each other? This was the question both the BBC and Google aske... |
26 March 2010
10:21 GMT |
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The Haiti earthquake may not be the hottest piece of news at the moment as the world has moved to the next headline grabbing tragedy, but for the people there the disaster is as fresh as always. Faced with the task of rebuilding an entire country, things aren't looking good in Haiti, already the poorest country... |
22 March 2010
12:33 GMT |
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Google is an odd company; it manages to be as nimble as a startup yet has all the advantages of a huge tech corp. It has plenty of experimental projects and small teams working on innovative products but can also tap into its vast technology catalog to create new products without too much hassle. One great example of... |
18 February 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Google's interest in translation technologies is well known and the company offers several tools based on those technologies and has also integrated them in many of its services including the search engine. One of the less known tools, yet one of the most important for developing and improving Google's mac... |
8 January 2010
06:06 GMT |
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It's not exactly a secret anymore that Google is pushing hard on translations, constantly updating the tools it built around its machine-translation technology, which is getting more accurate with every iteration. The reason is simple, to make more online content available to more people, which indirectly leads... |
18 December 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Twitter has completed the first round of translations it announced a couple of months ago with the introduction of a German-language version of the site. It is the last of the FIGS ( French, Italian, German and Spanish) languages it initially set out to release and the last translation for 2009 apparently. It has be... |
17 December 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Twitter may not be growing too much in the US lately, in fact its user base even shrank in October, but it's doing alright internationally, and this without having a localized version in any other language, besides Japan, until very recently. Now though, Twitter has started focusing more on its international us... |
11 December 2009
08:50 GMT |
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The web can be a wonderful resource for all kinds of information, but language is as much of a barrier as ever. It doesn't really matter if you can access a piece of information if you can't understand it. Translation tools have been around for years now, and Google is certainly interested in the space. Go... |
4 December 2009
03:15 GMT |
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YouTube has introduced some pretty interesting technologies which enable users to add automatic text captions to the videos. The feature is only available in several channels for now, as the speech recognition technology it uses isn't exactly perfect but Google says it should improve in time. The video site had... |
20 November 2009
03:44 GMT |
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With the web reaching more people in more countries everyday translations are becoming even more important. There are a number of translation services online and one of the best just got a big update. Google Translate was already impressive with support for 51 languages and some interesting features, but Google took... |
17 November 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Twitter is finally going international and is now announcing that the service is available in Spanish, the first step towards the introduction of several new languages. The translation effort mirrors that of Facebook, as it uses volunteers to provide translations to all of the pages and features on Twitter. The move ... |
4 November 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Google won't stop until its technology can translate between all of the languages on Earth and the company has now made a huge step forward with the addition of 285 new languages to the Google Translator Toolkit, a tool designed for professional translators and based on the Google Translate technology. This brin... |
16 October 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Facebook and Google have been going at it in an all-out translation war last week. Perhaps starting to feel a little left out, Twitter decided it was time to go international and has announced plans to launch the site in the commonly used languages French, Italian, German, and Spanish. And, seeing as how translations... |
9 October 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Facebook has been on somewhat of a translation war since last week but where Google attacks with brute computing force and simplicity the social website now counters with a human touch and sophistication. The search giant can handle its fair share of languages in its translation service but Latin unfortunately isn�... |
5 October 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Google is announcing a new tool for website owners that will allow them to offer their users a version of their sites in the users' native language through a new website translation gadget. The gadget is powered by Google Translate, of course, which the company is integrating into every possible product these da... |
1 October 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Google Translate, while far from perfect, is becoming increasingly used and can be just the tool for the job in certain situations, like in trying to understand a website or a text without needing a professional level translation. Now Google is opening the tool to new set of users as it has introduced an additional n... |
1 September 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Facebook is currently the largest social network in the world and has held this title for more than a year now. For a long period of time its international growth and presence far outweighed that in the US, its home market and, despite becoming the largest social network in the US earlier this year as well, most of t... |
27 August 2009
07:14 GMT |
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Sega is one of the most respected names in gaming, being active in the industry for a huge amount of time, ever since the arcade days. The Japanese company also owns a lot of high-quality franchises for which it develops new iterations quite often, like Sonic for example. But one new property that Sega has been heav... |
19 August 2009
03:21 GMT |
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With the events unfolding last week in Iran following the presidential elections, social media has proven again to be a medium for worldwide communication and an information source. And the need for tools to allow people speaking different languages to communicate was also more apparent and, in fact, satisfied, as Go... |
22 June 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Google has launched a new tool to supplement its automated translating service Google Translate. The fresh product, called Google Translator Toolkit, aims at bringing a human touch to translations by allowing users to edit and enhance computer generated translations.The tool enables anyone to upload a document, which... |
10 June 2009
11:20 GMT |
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The Bible, probably the most important writing ever known to mankind, has constantly been the subject of interpretations conducted by the most enlightened minds of the world for more than 2000 years now. That is why for a modern man, who can and will judge for themselves, having all the pieces of the puzzle is the fi... |
12 March 2009
12:01 GMT |
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The Google Robotics Division team have come open with what they have been working on, for the past year or so, and are finally ready to release their latest creation to the world. Yes, I know, it was a great surprise for me too, and by the looks of it, it is certain to change the face of things if only it were true.... |
19 December 2007
14:51 GMT |
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NEC, the Japanese multinational company, revealed it has created the world's first real-time language translator for mobile phones, which can convert Japanese words and phrases into English almost instantly. The new software has an integrated voice-recognition system, as well as advanced translation functions an... |
3 December 2007
07:08 GMT |
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Google doesn't want to remain behind in the Internet race or any race at all on any front. It struggles to go head to head with Yahoo! about the mobile industry market penetration for delivering ads and seems to be up for a limping start, and the war with Microsoft is one that announces to rage on for quite a wh... |
12 November 2007
04:27 GMT |
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One major problem when traveling abroad is that of not knowing the foreign language. XS2TheWorld is a new application for mobile phones which will turn your handset into a personal translator.Learning some common use sentences might be a solution, but often proves impossible or might be useless if the pronunciation ... |
13 July 2007
04:32 GMT |
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This is a future-of-tech story that has been heard before. Art Lebedev, a Russian art designer, promised to reveal at this year's CeBIT the Optimus Maximus. No, it's nothing related to the Roman Empire. It's actually a keyboard with small OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens on each key. Turns o... |
19 March 2007
12:21 GMT |
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