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Dang!

I’m bowled over by this little Christmas present from Google. Google Talk now includes automatic translation into 23 languages. Sending a message to [from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com will return translation or perform automatic translation if included in a group chat.

Maybe it’s just the spirit of the times and hoping for peace on earth, but the many advances from Google this year this one seems especially impressive.

Update: Supported translation bots are:

• English to Arabic – en2ar@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Chinese – en2zh@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Dutch – en2nl@bot.talk.google.com
• English to French – en2fr@bot.talk.google.com
• English to German – en2de@bot.talk.google.com
• English t0 Greek – en2el@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Italian – en2it@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Japanese – en2ja@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Korean – en2ko@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Russian – en2ru@bot.talk.google.com
• English to Spanish – en2es@bot.talk.google.com
• Arabic to English – ar2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Chinese to English – zh2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Dutch to English – nl2en@bot.talk.google.com
• French to English – fr2en@bot.talk.google.com
• French to German – fr2de@bot.talk.google.com
• German to English – de2en@bot.talk.google.com
• German to French – de2fr@bot.talk.google.com
• Greek to English – el2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Italian to English – it2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Japanese to English – ja2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Korean to English – ko2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Russian to English – ru2en@bot.talk.google.com
• Spanish to English – es2en@bot.talk.google.com

Google Talk suggests that this can be used as a translator when used from a PDA.  Google Talk is available for the BlackBerry, which is what I am using to show off the functionality. The more I play with this the more I think that Google is Magic.

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