Twitter translates into Spanish

So how do you say “fail whale” en español? Twitter has launched a Spanish translation, according to a blog post Tuesday (in Spanish) by co-founder Biz Stone. It’s the first of multiple volunteer-assisted translations for the microblogging site, the post explained. A look at Twitter’s public timeline will show that it’s used in many languages [...]

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Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish

Google on Monday announced that it had added nine new languages to its Translate service. Included in the update (which actually went live early last week) are Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, and Yiddish. This brings the total number of languages the service is able to translate to 51. Like other Google [...]

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Google adds translation to Docs

Google continues to move language translation into more and more of its products. On Thursday, it became a feature of Google Docs, letting anyone do an on-the-spot translation into one of 42 languages. The new feature, tucked away in a settings menu, has the smarts to automatically detect in which language the original document is [...]

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