BohemianScholar
03-18-2010, 11:03 AM
BBC World Service is running an experiment using automatic translation software to see how the internet can break down language barriers...
BBC - SuperPower Nation Day (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
from the BBC website:
As a part of SuperPower Nation Day, we are running an experiment using Google Translate, an automatic machine translation service, to see how the internet can break down language barriers. Communicate with speakers of Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish from around the world.
This is an experiment and the translations will not be perfect as the technology is still developing. You can help by writing clear comments - avoid abbreviations or expressions that are hard to translate. You can follow the conversation or talk about what is happening on the video streams, live from the event in London.
There are three live video feeds on the link and a constantly updated world map of where the last ten participants are writing from.
This is part of what the Net is supposed to be about.
BBC - SuperPower Nation Day (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
from the BBC website:
As a part of SuperPower Nation Day, we are running an experiment using Google Translate, an automatic machine translation service, to see how the internet can break down language barriers. Communicate with speakers of Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish from around the world.
This is an experiment and the translations will not be perfect as the technology is still developing. You can help by writing clear comments - avoid abbreviations or expressions that are hard to translate. You can follow the conversation or talk about what is happening on the video streams, live from the event in London.
There are three live video feeds on the link and a constantly updated world map of where the last ten participants are writing from.
This is part of what the Net is supposed to be about.