Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Live translation

You already knew about the Google translation service? Well, Microsoft have also started their own: Windows Live Translator. The interesting thing about the latter is that it allows you to compare both the original text and the translated one side-by-side (and that is also the case for web pages). Just like Google's though, it would not translate text that was part of images (I can understand that), but also would leave the text it could not translate as it was, with no particular hint.
By default, the Windows Live Translator uses Systran services, but if you check the "Computer-related content" checkbox, they use their own translator...

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