BABEL FISH - universal translator

BABEL FISH :


The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy recieved not from its own carrier but from those around it, It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. the practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any language.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anhthing so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes like this : "I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But", says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? it could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh that was easy" says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

GOOGLE BABEL FISH

In the year 2008. I had posted the following blog.




Today, when I was working on the Google translator page.

I found that if you put a simple sentence in English and translates it into once Hindi.

the translation comes with an icon and when you press on it, you can hear it being sad in in the translator language.

now we can not only translate some simple sentences from English to many languages. Using global translate.

but actually say them in the language.

The table below gives availability details some surprises are.

None of the major islamic languages arabic/urdu/Persian are available ( I would have thought U S defense department would be ready with multimillion dollar contracts ;-)

Korean Japanese and Hebrew are notably absent ( probably patent rights for theses language TTS may be a problem for Google )





“Thursday, February 14, 2008

universal translator

I hope the NIIIT will start working on a good MT

not the laughable MT from telugu to english they have now



I saw this blog post which is interesting

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-05-22-n83.html





The following languages are available now TTS available

Afrikaans All available except the ones marked with X

Albanian

Arabic

Armenian ALPHA

Azerbaijani ALPHA

Basque ALPHA

Belo russian

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian ALPHA

German

Greek

Haitian Creole ALPHA

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malay

Maltese

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

SIovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu ALPHA

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish