translation

Google Translate Adds As-You-Type Translations, Pronunciation

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google Translate added a few features to its main web home, including instant translations as you type. What’s really helpful is a bit more tucked away: phonetic pronunciations for non-Roman alphabets, like Chinese and text-to-speech pronunciations for translating to English. More »

Lingoes Defines And Translates Text, Converts Numbers, And More

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: If you need frequent access to word definitions and text translation, Lingoes is a portable application that does everything from dictionary word look-ups to translation of over 80 languages. More »

PicTranslator Uses Your iPhone Camera To Translate Languages

5:30AM Adam Pash | iPhone only: Whether you’ve found yourself in a foreign land or you just need a little help with a foreign-language menu, snap a pic with PicTranslator and let it translate for you on the fly. More »

Google Docs Automatically Translates Documents Into 42 Languages

3:30AM Adam Pash | While most of us don’t frequently find ourselves needing to translate our documents to various languages on-the-fly, Google Docs just announced a new feature that’ll be great for those who do: The service now automatically translates docs in 42 different languages with a few mouse clicks. More »

Google Now Translates Uploaded Documents

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google Translate could previously take pasted text or web URLs for translation, and the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer was offering on-the-fly translation. Now Google’s made it easy to put desktop documents through its multi-language processing. More »

Gmail Labs Automatically Translates Your Email

6:45AM Adam Pash | Got yourself a pen pal that just happens to speak another language? A new feature in Gmail Labs automatically translates foreign-language email messages to your native tongue directly in Gmail. More »

Gmail To Get Multilingual Translation

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Google hasn’t made it official, but PC World/IDG News Service and the Google Operating System blog are totally convinced that Gmail will get multi-language, on-the-fly translation of their email messages at an event in Brussels to celebrate Gmail’s fifth birthday. The screenshot above, hot off Google’s servers, seems to give away the meaning of Google’s event description as having “a European multilingual angle.” As soon as it happens, you know we’ll try it out; in the meantime, we’re wondering if Gmail has anything else in store to release today. More »

Use Google Image Search For Quick On-The-Spot Translation

4:30PM Angus Kidman | The Official Google Blog offers up a neat trick for quick translations from a foreign language: using Google Image Search. While Google has its own translation option, Image Search is easier to access via the standard Google mobile option, and a pictorial clue can make the meaning of a word much clearer. As the post points out, it can also be useful when you’re practising with a native speaker and trying to nail down a particular word in both languages. For auto-language-detecting translation online, check out previously mentioned Frengly or the To English bookmarklet. More »

To English Bookmarklet Quickly, Easily Translates Any Text With One Click

8:00AM Adam Pash | We’ve been all about Google Translate ever since it introduced automatic language detection, but language detection isn’t the default, and even then, it could be streamlined. Enter the To English bookmarklet. More »