Foreign languages are not a strong point for the British public (apologies to those of you who are fluent in a second tongue), so GoogleTalk’s new IM translation bot is sure to come in handy for many of us.
The translation bot automatically translates IM conversations so that even if you and the recipient are not linguistically compatible, you can still chew the fat, blether, blab or whatever you want to call it to your heart’s content. For those of you that don’t know what a bot is, the Google Talkabout blog describes it as “a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and provides some fun or useful functionality.”
But ‘where’s the mobile angle?’ we hear you cry. Well if you are a user of Fring (as in the clever mobile VoIP client) you can use the service via your mobile as GoogleTalk is one of the supported services. All you need to do is add @bot.talk.google.com with the correct preceding code for your chosen language (for example, for an English to French translation you would send [ en2fr@bot.talk.google.com ]) as a friend in GoogleTalk and send it a message. Very clever stuff indeed, hit the jump for a full list of the supported language codes.
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