Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Neat Translation Service

In the world of eCommerce and Integration there are typically a lot of requirements for translations. The support of double byte characters in the Windows Code set pretty much guarantee a truly international solution when using Windows Server products such as Commerce Server and BizTalk.

The fun thing was when I heard about this service that would be available soon during a TechEd 2009. Check this web site, I noticed a cool “plug in” into Windows Live Messenger.

This is the following icon:

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Note that I have yet to play around with the widget.

To use this bot, simply add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and invite him/her to your conversations.

After adding the bot into a 3 way conversation (or more) you can set your source and destination languages via numerics as the screenshots show.

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The instructions for those that do not read french, are choose source and destination language

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Probably have to take my word for it, but the translation is pretty good…

The interface is as follows:

 

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A translation is (kinda ironic here…)

  1. TBot lang – show the pair of active languages
  2. TBot change – choose the languages for translation
  3. TBot stop – stop translations
  4. TBot start – being translations again
  5. TBot set – set the working language
  6. Tobot ? – Show this list of commands

 

Kinda fun and the translations are pretty accurate so far. I would say enough to get by.

 

p.s.

After translating the list, I set the working language to English and here is the list:

 

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