For sites that use Google Friend Connect and its comment widget, there is now a novel new feature: comment translation. The comment widget plugs into Google Translate to allow readers to translate comments left in foreign languages. This will be a boon to international blogs and sites, such as Go2Web20, which use Google Friend Connect as a login system.
Now you can talk to people half-way around the world, even if they don’t speak the same language. Sort of. The translation is still machine translation, but it is usually good enough to get across the main gist of what people are saying.
The way it works is the comment widget has a “translate” link which then pops up a menu of languages to choose from. The translated comments are then highlighted in yellow. Here is a video showing what it looks like in action.
Google says that this can work for a variety of sites, including international non-profits such as the World Wide Fund For Nature’s Earth Hour website. The Earth Hour campaign is supported by 4,000 cities in 88 different countries to help engage citizens in conserving energy. Visitors to this website can now leave comments in their native language and use Google Friend Connect’s comment translation to engage in discussions with the greater community.
Comment translation is one of several new gadgets that have been rolled out in Google’s Friend Connect gallery, perhaps in an effort to catch up to Facebook Connect. These features include the event gadget, the polls gadget, and the Get Answers gadget.
A tool that translated comments made in english that just make no sense would be great too!
This superior I is believe. Job good! *
* automatically translated by google.com/translate
This is a great feature. We’ve used Google Translate for comment translating at xihalife.com for almost a year now and it’s been very popular with the users. Hope to see other websites doing something similar too (especially Facebook!)
A Facebook developer has had an app out like this for months called msgtranslator, found at http://apps.fac...m/msgtranslator
I like it a lot better.
It’s nice, but mostly for blogging applications which address multi lenugal readers.
I don’t see who will actually use it.
Tha coloring option is much more useful
Quote: Sort of. The translation is still machine translation, but it is usually good enough to get across the main gist of what people are saying.
You imply that machine translation gives low-quality results. If the source text is optimised for machine translation, machine translation gives good results.
Try translating things like “the bird flies like a bat” using automatic translation
There is a similar thing on Tweeter called Tweetrans (I think at tweetrans.com) – the translation there is human translation
it is a service of http://www.oneh...translation.com …
I haven’t seen much interaction with Google Friend Connect on my site! Facebook Connect is the one that more people have embraced..
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Facebook has had an app out like this for months called msgtranslator, found at http://apps.fac...m/msgtranslator
msgtranslator is an awesome application. thanks for the pointer!
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I already have a Translation plugin that works great for all my blog entries. Now I can add it for Google Friend Connect too.
As an idea it sounds great but I’m still stuck on the fact that it’s machine generated…even though google is improving, it’s far behind the quality of actual human translations. Some of the translations I got were ridiculous! I would rather use services like mygengo.com to get reliable and accurate translations, and it costs close to nothing. This way you get the best of both worlds. You should check it out.
A tool that translated comments made in english that just make no sense would be great too!