Yahoo IM Translator

zivkov writes "AvMedia has developed a translating proxy for Yahoo! Messenger. This HTTP Proxy is a two-way translator which works with your Yahoo! Messenger to translate your typed message into a various languages. It supports English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. The proxy can be used as a personal translator, or as a centralized server, handling multiple Yahoo! IM sessions. The Java source code is available under GPL."

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site is already slow - here's the text

[Anonymous Coward]

This Yahoo Translating HTTP Proxy (YTP) is a two-way translator which works with your Yahoo! Messenger to translate your typed message into a various languages. Your friend will receive translated message, and she can type back in the translated language. For example, if you type to her in English, she can receive the message in French. She can then type back in French and you will get the message in English. The following languages are supported:

* English -> German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
* German -> English, French
* Spanish -> English
* French -> English, German
* Italian -> English
* Portuguese -> English

This is an Open Source project. The source code is available for download.

If you like to try it first without downloading, we have a live Translating Proxy running on our server. Set your Y! Messenger HTTP proxy Server Name to avmedia.org, and Server Port to 8084. For more detailed instructions see here. Keep in mind that the server can get very busy at times.

See also our SourceForge and FreshMeat projects.

Hope you find it useful.

Ivo Zivkov.

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Kopete has this...

[ElGuapoGolf]

Just an FYI for those of us in linuxland... Kopete has (and has had) this ability for some time. The translation plugin will work with any protocol that Kopete supports.

It uses Google for translation

[chriss]

First I was exited to see an open source translation project, especially in combination with an instant messenger. The I realized that they simply send the messages to Google for translation. So no access to a translation engine and the quality of Googles translations.

There seems to be openLogos, a commercial translation system that has recently become available as open source based on Linux and PostgreSQL. Guess I'll have to give that one a try, it looked rather complicated. Has anybody any experience with openLogos or similar (freely available) systems?

low tech AJAX solution

[fak3r]

While you're waiting for this to show up, there's a realtime way of doing this in AJAX now: AJAX translator, and I could see this making it's way in a website, or forum to provide the same 'on the fly' translation of text. With all that's been done with the internet, it's still pretty segmented in terms of languages; this would open up that knot.