Using Gtalk To Chat In Different Languages

Written by: Abhijeet Mukherjee on Friday, July 11th, 2008
Posted to: IM/Chat/Talk
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So you love Google talk and use it as your primary chat app every day. Sure it’s a cool IM tool which let’s you communicate with your friends…in English. Right, English is omnipresent and you’ve never really cared about other languages. But what do you do if you encounter someone who doesn’t speak or understand English and you need to chat with him on Gtalk? Can you do it ?

You bet you can ! So let’s say the other guy only speaks and understands French. You’ll need to add 2 Googlebots to your Gtalk account.

1.  en2fr@bot.talk.google.com - Googlebot which translates English to French

2.  fr2en@bot.talk.google.com -  Googlebot which translates French to English

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I’m sure now you know what you need to do. When your friend from France tells you something, copy paste it to fr2en@bot.talk.google.com and get the translation in English. And then use the other bot ( en2fr@bot.talk.google.com )  to get the French translation of your reply and then copy paste that to your friend.

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It may not be very accurate but I’m sure the person on the other side would understand it, especially if you let him know that you are using a translation tool. Here are some more Googlebots for this purpose :-

  • GERMAN to ENGLISH - de2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • ARGENTINA to ENGLISH - ar2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • CHINESE to ENGLISH - zh2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • SPANISH to ENGLISH - es2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • JAPANESE to ENGLISH - ja2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • ITALIAN to ENGLISH - it2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • NETHERLANDS to ENGLISH - nl2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • RUSSIAN to ENGLISH - ru2en@bot.talk.google.com
  • KOREAN to ENGLISH - ko2en@bot.talk.google.com

You could get ENGLISH to GERMAN  by en2de@bot.talk.google.com and so on and so forth.

Hope these Googlebots help you in spreading your ideas further in the non-english speaking world. :)

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2 Responses to “Using Gtalk To Chat In Different Languages”

  1. # Bill Chapmanon 11 Jul 2008 at 5:32 pm

    There is a non-technological solution. I would like to argue the case for Esperanto as the international language.
    It is a planned language which belongs to no one country or group of states.

    Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net

    Esperanto works! I’ve used it in speech and writing in a dozen countries over recent years.

  2. # Human Translatoron 12 Jul 2008 at 9:31 am

    This is fun to use, but as it is going though machine translation, the meaning may be lost in translation and in the worst case it may also express the opposite of what you intended to say