Google Ajax Language API for Detection and Translation
22 Mar
Posted by Ray Cheung as License Free, Tools
Google has introduced Ajax Language API. This new API boasts two functions, language translation and language detection - which cover 13 languages and 29 translation pairs. With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. The language API is designed to be simple and easy to use to translate and detect languages on the fly when offline translations are not available. They plan on adding more exciting capabilities to the AJAX Language API in the future, so stay tuned.
I have been waiting for this Language API from Google Translator for a long long time. Now we are able to translate our web pages, paragraphs or even words into different languages in real time. The Language Detection function comes in very handy as well. How exciting is that!
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Demo: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/
License: License Free
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Woow. Amazing!! I’ll test this API on my blog
Awesome! It seems to werk very good!
Very nice. Seems very easy to use.
Google’s software will definitely have a problem with complex languages such as Chinese or Japanese because their words are not separated by spaces. They only show one possible translation when really you should be able to choose from multiple options. If you want to learn almost any language in the world, my site can help you.
http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=cutout+japanese+english+cutouttranslations&btnG=%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&hl=ja&lr=lang_ja&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aja%3Aofficial&hs=k5L
@Cutout: during my experience developing the machine translated chinese news site http://thetruechina.com, I’ve learned that machine translation can only take you so far. So if you want to ‘learn’ a new language based on machine translation, the experience won’t be good enough.
However, what you’ve mentioned as problems in translating Chinese is actually not that bad. The key is not to use it as it is, but to overlay the translation result with multiple contexts. For thetruechina.com, we use algorithm to extract locations and adds maps, news, photos, travel faqs overlays to provide a much better experience, which is impossible if you offer the translation by itself.
Hope this helps,
Alex
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