28 January 2009

Google Translator Widget
For S60 3rd (WRT) and 5th Ed Devices

Google Translator widget is a free, powerful and easy-to-use multilingual translation interface that uses the Google translation engine and satisfies your translation needs on the go.

Similar to its web based translation service, the Google Translation widget for S60 devices translates a section of text into another language. While using the service, widget auto detects the source language and you only need to select the language in which it will be translated to, enter the section of text and click the go button.

The unique feature of the widget is its ability to automatically detect the source language, which especially useful if you don't recognize the language and also, automated translations are quicker and easier.

Unfortunately, there are some limitations and missing functions such as support for site translations, dictionary and tools but you can always switch to S60 browser and use the regular web based translation engine as it works just fine and is maybe even better solution in some cases.

Widget is mainly developed to appeal to travelers who don't want to carry around phrase books and as it uses as minimal amount of data as possible it is perfect solution while you're abroad!

Google Translate is as of January 2009 a beta service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, or a webpage, into another language, with limits to the number of paragraphs, or range of technical terms, translated. [For some languages, users are asked for alternate translations such as for technical terms, to be included for future updates to the translation process.

Unlike other translation services such as Babel Fish, AOL, and Yahoo which use SYSTRAN, Google uses its own translation software.

Google Translate, like other automatic translation tools, has its limitations. While it can help the reader to understand the general content of a foreign language text, it does not always deliver accurate translations. Some languages produce better results than others