Google just made the world a slightly smaller place today. They’ve added a feature to their highly popular Google Reader that will auto-translate any site with a feed to your native tongue. Not only that, it’s very easy to use and it works really well.
Just subscribe to a blog or other feed like normal, then pull down the feed settings menu on the right and choose “Translate into my language.” The text is instantly translated.
We tested it with TechCrunch Japan, and the translations came through well enough to understand. Definite winner.
Tell us your favorite foreign language tech blogs in the comments so we can subscribe immediately!
See all
Post
no doubt, keso it the most famous blogger in China, his blog “playing with IT” is here: http://blog.donews.com/keso
sorry, keso is… no “keso it”.
subscribed.
But that would require me to switch my Greader settings to German Interface to get a translation into German *brrr* [at least Google is very good at being very subtle about making a real usable interface, so I assume that will be changed soon].
Now, do you want a list of blogs somebody at TC should subscribe for local market information or really only want our favourite ones?
“But that would require me to switch my Greader settings to German Interface to get a translation into German *brrr*”
Hope they fix this ASAP!
Improvising, Polishing and repolishing. Some of the best qualities of Google. I think they learnt from Yahoo that if you are lethargic, you will lose everything.
Mike i got a good one, TechCrunch France!
Mloovi.com has been doing this for a while now, we also create permanent URLs which are indexable by search engines (great for SEO) and a directory of translated feeds, we have around 100,000 pages out there already even though we are only 3 months old. You can add the feeds to Google Reader easily as well.
http://www.cnbloggercon.org/blog/ for news about blogging in China - talks about issues, trends, personalities
omg… the translation from Chinese to English is much better than I expected.
I tried couple long blog articles, and I have no problem reading the english version, although the grammar is still a bit wrong.
seems like google translation engine just got better. thumbs up
Why not! Google does everything else! You cannot even start to compare mobile phone offers without noticing that the Google service or apps are included in the package somewhere. In terms of the Internet, Google definitely has a monopoly.
really nice work of google.
google translator definitely got better!
translation from english to italian is quite good
I would say that 80-90% of sentences are translated in a way that let people understand them
and I’d say that 20% of sentences are perfectly translated, as in a mother tongue printed book
trying from chinese to italian, the text is still understandable but with a few more mistakes
For Japanese, please try, say, NHK News or something, instead of TechCrunch Japan.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/rss/news/cat0.xml
TechCrunch Japan is manually translated from English - and the translators do their job very beautifully. It just can’t be an appropriate test when you just do a sort of reverse-translation. I’m writing this because I know Google Translate still has a long way to go as far as the Japanese language is concerned. It corrupts every single sentence when you try to have an English news feed translated into Japanese. I feel sad because I’m a native Japanese speaker.
Japanese to English translation seems to work much better, though, but it is not satisfiable yet, and sometimes the results can be very misleading.
Regards
If you fire TechCrunch Japanese translators and replace them with Google Translator, you will see how bad it is by seeing number of readers decreased dramatically
This is excellent, time to expand our own markets to Deutsche, Swiss, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and perhaps Russian? Kudos Google!
~dots
Damn it. I have been happy with Netvibes for the last 18 months and have been trying not to let Google completely take over my internet experience, but I really want this feature. This will make reading the handful of French, Argentinian, Brazilian blogs I read a damn site easier than my school-level language skills.
Great tool! we were wondering if we should do 2 separate blogs (english / spanish) and this helped us decide.
GoogleWatchBlog - A very good german blog about Google, its products and news: (http://www.googlewatchblog.de).
i like the tool it is awsome.
Translation from russian is also quite good! Definitely will use it for translation from Chinese / Japanese
A long awaited tool indeed. Adding it to our blog.
Very interesting service
If I’m not mistaken the FIREFOX ADD-ON “FOXLINGO” already does that: does anybody kno whether this Google’s tool is better than FOX LINGO?
Like something of Vietnam , you can get a look and reading all Vietnamese posts , here’s a vn’s blog. http://magic2flashvn.wordpress.com
and http://bloggervietnamese.blogspot.com