{"id":46,"date":"2007-05-22T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/46"},"modified":"2007-05-22T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T05:52:14","slug":"discovered-google-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/46","title":{"rendered":"Discovered Google Translate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\">Google Translate<\/a>, Google&#8217;s automatic translation service. I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s not exactly new, and for example babelfish has been there for years, supplying us with extremely bad and most of the times quite amusing translation of websites &#8211; but the news is: Google Translate knows Chinese! I have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldlingo.com\/en\/products_services\/worldlingo_translator.html\">Worldlingo<\/a> for that for a long time, but this website is often <em>very<\/em> slow and full of advertisement. I can&#8217;t judge which translation engine is better though.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the best thing: Google Translate can be integrated into your browser \ud83d\ude42 Here is how:<br \/>\nFor Konqueror, go to Settings \/ Configure Konqueror&#8230; \/ Web Shortcuts and press the New&#8230; button. Now you can specify a name for this web shortcut, for example &#8220;Google Translate english\/chinese&#8221; (this is the name as it shows up in the web shortcuts list). Then, paste the following into the URL field:<br \/>\n<code>http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=\\{@}&langpair=en|zh-CN<\/code><br \/>\nFinally, specify the web shortcut itself, for example &#8220;ench&#8221;. From now on, you can just type &#8220;ench some english text&#8221; into your URL entry field, and the translation will be made. If you have a closer look at the URL I specified above, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be able to figure out how to add a web shortcut for chinese\/english or any other language that Google Translate supports \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nFor Firefox, download the appropriate search plugins from <a href=\"http:\/\/mycroft.mozdev.org\/\">mycroft.mozdev.org<\/a> and use the search field next to the URL field.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note: My website is now available in eight (!) languages. <small><small>Five thanks to Google Translate \ud83d\ude09<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>P.S.: <small>. o O ( Hmm&#8230; that URL is long and doesn&#8217;t get wrapped. So now it overlaps the menu on the right. Man that looks ugly. I should tweak this theme a bit, I guess&#8230; Nah, too lazy. )<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago I discovered Google Translate, Google&#8217;s automatic translation service. I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s not exactly new, and for example babelfish has been there for years, supplying us with extremely bad and most of the times quite amusing translation of websites &#8211; but the news is: Google Translate knows Chinese! I have been using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/46\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discovered Google Translate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-internet-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}