Friday, December 17, 2010

magical machine translation

This is un-fucking-believable:



The future has arrived.

HT kottke

3 comments:

GamesWithWords said...

The optical character recognition technology these days is great. Hopefully the actual translations will catch up!

Chris said...

Yep, this is basically Liberman's point over at LL too. But I love the interface. It's pretty awesome.

Light said...

They use word-to-word translation. Thus quality of translation can't be high. Nevertheless, ocr and other stuff are great.

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