Google has released 23 translation chat-bots. (If you didn't know, a bot is simply a (ro)bot). You just add any of them to GTalk (or any other jabber client) and send a message. They (some ultrageek translators who type at lightning velocities onto a gargauntan monitor filled with at least 1 million open chatboxes 24/7/365 and yada yada) will reply back with the translation within a second.
List of bots:
ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en*
To add the bot to your buddylist, use this id format:
[firstlanguage]2[secondlanguage]@bot.talk.google.com
Example: en2es@bot.talk.google.com
Sample chat:
me: hello*Explanation on the language codes:
en2es: Hola
me: what's up
en2es: ¿Para qué son
me: welcome to ootty
en2es: Bienvenida a ootty
me: nee poda manda
en2es: Nee Poda Manda
Sent at 10:57 PM on Monday
EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese.
Group Chatroom Bot:
Add any or all of
partychat@partych.atto GTalk and follow the instructions at partych.at or http://techwalla.googlepages.com/ to create a closed (can be password protected as well) chatroom of friends of your own, and carry on a persistent (the group chat option in GTalk is not persistent) chat with them. We can be simulataneously active in 11 different groups at the same time using the ids above. Using /help or /commands on the partchat bot will provide online help. This was created by Akshay Patil of Google.
partychat0@partych.at
partychat1@partych.at
partychat2@partych.at
partychat3@partych.at
partychat4@partych.at
partychat5@partych.at
partychat6@partych.at
partychat7@partych.at
partychat8@partych.at
partychat9@partych.at
Sample conversation:
me: what the hell?Find a more detailed treatment of Google's chatbots or IM bots here.
partychat: you are not in a party chat, for help using PartyChat, type '/help'
me: /help
partychat: To enter a party chat, type '/join chat_name [password]' (password may not be required).
To exit a party chat, type '/exit'.
For a list of PartyChat commands, type '/commands'
Pretty cool, ha? Enjoy!
3 comments:
Some good stuff there! Thanks for the post, Ravi!
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