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From: "Robin Doer" <robin@robind.de>
To: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: translating web pages
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:01:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041122.ujc.51537300@192.168.0.6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20041121150833.01f61748@celine>

Ray Olszewski (ray@comarre.com) schrieb:
> Relative to your comments, James, I fear I can only echo your lack of
> success. I recently was investigating, specifically, English-Spanish
> translation. While I did find a couple of Linux apps that function at the
> dictionary level ... translating words and short phrases, but with no
> sensitivity to context ...

For a pure dictionary (supports translations from/to English/German/French) I
suggest using dict.leo.org. It also offers toolbars for Mozilla/Firefox, an a
Konqueror-integration.

> I found nothing in the way of babelfish-like
> translation for Linux.

Around babelfish I've a nice story. Some time ago a local radiostation (I come
from Germany) carried out a quiz: They took the lyrics from a german song,
translated it into English and finally back to German using
babel.altavista.com. This is quite funny! Give it a try!

Robin

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-22 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-21 22:31 translating web pages mike
2004-11-21 23:00 ` James Miller
2004-11-21 23:11   ` Ray Olszewski
2004-11-22 10:01     ` Robin Doer [this message]

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