While Google Translate is certainly not perfect in many of its translations, the site is undoubtedly an incredibly useful tool when trying to interpret a word, phrase or entire site in a different language. Today, Google has added nine more languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish, bringing the number of languages that are supported up to 51.
Google says that with the latest addition, the site now supports all 23 of the official EU languages. And following the events in Iran during the elections, Google added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate. Google warns users that quality of the translation for the new languages is still basic and may have some glitches.
Google has been integrating Google Translate into many of its other applications, most recently adding support for translation in Google Docs. You can also translate emails within Gmail, webpages using Google Toolbar, and RSS feeds in Google Reader. In June, Google launched the Google Translator Kit, which is a translation editor that lets translators make human edits within machine translations.
Exciting. Google speaks Icelandic now.
Quite interesting..Google Translator is already becoming famous all over the world. I really appreciate Google for their good move for the small countries too. The impressive feature is translation of emails with the Toolbar. When is Google Translator kit released?Eagerly waiting for the Editor
Glad to finally see Macedonian
Still missing Bengali language (5th most spoken languages in the world).
http://en.wikip...engali_language
contrast this to icelandic, spoken by 320000 people
Indic languages are not a primary thrust in Google as most people from that region use English as a computing language. Hindi support has been added already.
Next in line should be Telugu (3rd largest in the subcontinent and among the major Indic languages spoken in America esp. Silicon Valley) http://bit.ly/CApWz , and Bengali (2nd largest when neighboring country of Bangladesh is included). And I do know from unofficial sources that Google will be supporting these in the near future.
They probably prioritize by customer demand. That would make sense seeing as Google is a business.
I find myself using Google Translate more and more these days. Seems like another area they are gaining some traction in.
O google, when will you release the ultimate android app that does voice-recognition-and-translation on-teh-fly ?
i only share Google Location: All over the world
Heh, I guess we reacted quite fast. In fact, we upgraded our list of languages supplied by Google translator as early as last week! Yay!
Those who don’t know. I am talking about a free website translator ConveyThis: http://www.conveythis.com
It’s a widget that allows all webmasters to offer their websites in over 50 languages.
Sounds like we need more http://translationparty.com
Yes Google language translator is too good
http://live-point.net
Google Translate is a wonderful gift. Google extensions in languages add up more value to it. But the translations are not flawless. It would be nice if concentration is made towards fixing the translation bugs along with adding up the languages.
I use a lot Google Translate especially with a very useful firefox extension. My only grief his that its dictionary is very limited (between french and english at least).
google is more powerful and more powerful