Internet has broken down many
barriers to make it easy to learn more about the world such as the
distance barrier, the time barrier. Just with some clicks, Internet
brings you the whole world to your computer. Recently, with the
development of technology, another barrier has been broken down: the
language barrier. Now, you can discover many interesting and fantastic
things of a foreign culture right in your own language. These are three
applications which may help you much.Google Translate
Google Translate may be the biggest guy in the Translator market powered by Google, the king of search engines. Google Translate supports nearly 40 different languages and the list is day by day lengthened. The usage is quite easy, just enter text into the textbox, and then select the source and destination language. Finally, click on the button Translate. The translate process is pretty fast or even you can say “immediately”. The result will be shown in the right panel. The quality is quite acceptable. It seems to be cool when translating technical text while others are awful.
Nice Translator
Nice Translator uses the Google Translate API, so that the supported languages, the quality and the result are the same. However, like the name says, Nice Translator has a nicer interface which you may find it handy and convenient. Just enter text into the textbox above, and then select the source language. You can leave it “auto-detect” but it is better to choose a language. Next, click on the drop list add/remove and choose languages you want to translate to. The result will be shown in different languages below.
Fried Babel Fish
Fried Babel Fish is a desktop application for Windows. The name does not associate with Babel Fish, a famous web-based translator. It uses Google Translate API and is like Nice Translator, the result is completely similar to what Google Translate does. The advantage of Fried Babel Fish is that you don’t have to open a browser in order to translate a text, but you just only translate up to 150 words a time using this application.
Yahoo Babel Fish
Yahoo Babel Fish may be an older tool than others. However, it is last item in this list because of the lack of languages to translate, the slow speed, difficult to use interface and the limit of words for a translation (just up to 150 words). However, you should also try Babel Fish and others especially for non-technology text to get the best result.
Not all of these translators make a best result, but it is really helpful to make it easy to learn more about the world in your own language.
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