Google Translate

[Bruce Wade]

Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

[Johann Spies]

Post by Bruce Wade
Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Yes, I have played with it. It is interesting, but if you want a
professional job done, you will have to do the translation by hand.

As it is, it is a tool that can give somebody of a different language an
idea what the page is about.

I suppose one can use that to cover instances other than what you can
provide for. Maybe a conditional invocation of the script.

Regards
Johann.

[greaneym]

It is fine if you want to figure out vocabulary, but it is not very good
with grammatical structures, yet. It keeps improving though.

Post by Bruce Wade
Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.google.com/translate_tools
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[Bruce Wade]

Thanks for the feed back, I suppose it is more like a toy or for people who
can't afford or don't know anyone to do a professional translation. I think
it maybe a good start for some sites who are just starting out and want to
see which languages are most used on their site. (You can track google
translate with google analytics)

Post by greaneym
It is fine if you want to figure out vocabulary, but it is not very good
with grammatical structures, yet. It keeps improving though.

Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.**
google.com/translate_tools <http://translate.google.com/translate_tools>
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Regards,
Bruce Wade
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade>
http://www.wadecybertech.com
http://www.fittraineronline.**com <http://www.fittraineronline.com> -
Fitness Personal Trainers Online
http://www.warplydesigned.com

[Derek]

Well, if you are using Google Chrome, it will offer to translate sites that
are in a language that you don't understand. That works well enough for
most websites.

I don't bother to offer a "translate this site to your language" because if
they want to do that, they can. If you care about people reading your pages
and you want a translation, you should translate it yourself instead of
saying "well this is good enough, i guess" and giving them that tool.
Web2py makes it easy - put all your strings in those T() blocks, and then
modify the language specific files.

It really makes no sense to add that because google isn't going to index
your website in another language because you have that translator tool
added.

Post by Bruce Wade
Thanks for the feed back, I suppose it is more like a toy or for people
who can't afford or don't know anyone to do a professional translation. I
think it maybe a good start for some sites who are just starting out and
want to see which languages are most used on their site. (You can track
google translate with google analytics)

Post by greaneym
It is fine if you want to figure out vocabulary, but it is not very good
with grammatical structures, yet. It keeps improving though.

Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.**
google.com/translate_tools <http://translate.google.com/translate_tools>
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Regards,
Bruce Wade
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade>
http://www.wadecybertech.com
http://www.fittraineronline.**com <http://www.fittraineronline.com> -
Fitness Personal Trainers Online
http://www.warplydesigned.com

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Regards,
Bruce Wade
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade
http://www.wadecybertech.com
http://www.fittraineronline.com - Fitness Personal Trainers Online
http://www.warplydesigned.com

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Some time ago we made a translation plugin that used google translate
service but I found uses who need translation prefer to use
google translate directly.

Post by Derek
Well, if you are using Google Chrome, it will offer to translate sites
that are in a language that you don't understand. That works well enough
for most websites.
I don't bother to offer a "translate this site to your language" because
if they want to do that, they can. If you care about people reading your
pages and you want a translation, you should translate it yourself instead
of saying "well this is good enough, i guess" and giving them that tool.
Web2py makes it easy - put all your strings in those T() blocks, and then
modify the language specific files.
It really makes no sense to add that because google isn't going to index
your website in another language because you have that translator tool
added.

Post by Bruce Wade
Thanks for the feed back, I suppose it is more like a toy or for people
who can't afford or don't know anyone to do a professional translation. I
think it maybe a good start for some sites who are just starting out and
want to see which languages are most used on their site. (You can track
google translate with google analytics)

Post by greaneym
It is fine if you want to figure out vocabulary, but it is not very good
with grammatical structures, yet. It keeps improving though.

Has anyone tried this before? http://translate.**
google.com/translate_tools<http://translate.google.com/translate_tools>
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Regards,
Bruce Wade
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**brucelwade<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade>
http://www.wadecybertech.com
http://www.fittraineronline.**com <http://www.fittraineronline.com> -
Fitness Personal Trainers Online
http://www.warplydesigned.com

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Regards,
Bruce Wade
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucelwade
http://www.wadecybertech.com
http://www.fittraineronline.com - Fitness Personal Trainers Online
http://www.warplydesigned.com