Twitter Translate: Automatically convert tweets to your language
I am having a lot of fun with the AJAX Language API. Last week I talked about the translation bookmarklet that lets you translate anything that you select in the browser.
This time, I whipped up Twitter Translate, which watches the tweets in the page, and if the content isn’t your native tongue automatically converts it and replaces it inline. It then adds a mini logo with “translated from …” which you can click on to see the original text:
It is probably easiest to quickly see it in action:
I think that I am so excited about this API as it is a vertical service that you can just use for free. Think back on how you would be able to integrate language into your applications in the past. You would either:
- Have to work on the discipline yourself, which is crazy if it isn’t your core business
- Find a vendor that has some product that you can use, all of which are very expensive.
Now, we can use this service for free, and the best part? It will keep getting better behind the scenes without us having to do a thing!
April 29th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Funny how the tweets in the video are so badly translated…
“Skype m’a planté et Y! est saccadé je me couche bonne nuit à tous !!” approximately means “Skype is down and Y! lags I go to bed good night everybody !!” and “Il n’y a que moi qui ait remarqué le petit crocodile de mary tabarly ?” translates (module the typo: à => a) to “Am I the only one to have noticed mary tabarly’s small crocodile ?”.
Did you really get it from “Skype me planted and Y! I was choppy layer good night all!” and “There is a mine that had noticed the little crocodile tabarly mary?” ? ;-)
April 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I don’t see a link to the script, and following the link to the google hosted code page doesn’t show any downloads there either… Where is the GM script available at?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:41 am
FWIW, you didn’t have a link to it on your My Code page either, but following the naming/link structure of your other scripts, it was easy enough to find.. though I don’t expect that is the way you want it done…