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."

Comments

Re:But what about...

[kalleguld]

hehe, I like how this is marked "Interesting".

Re:No Privacy Implications Since It Resides Locall

[mtenhagen]

If you look in the code you can see that http://translate.google.com/ is used for translating. So google can still see it. They might even put some adds in.

Does it exist for forums?

[Charbax]

This is awesome. I would like to have this for a triple-language forum. So users would have to know at least one language of English, French and German to participate. At the top of the page and in the profile settings, there are check boxes the user checks for thwe languages that he understands. Thus is someone doesn't understand German, the plugin would display the auto-translated version in the user's prefered language. Manual translations can be provided by the user to be displayed if available instead of the automatic translation. Please contact me if you have seen this multi-language forum someplace.

Google

[XMilkProject]

I remember there had been some hype about google developing some advanced translation technology based on neural nets learning natural language by comparing UN documents from many languages.

I wonder if google will soon integrate this sort of technology into their chat client, and hopefully outperform the existing machine translation tech.