{"id":5974,"date":"2008-07-25T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/automatic-translations-in-google-talk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:28:57","slug":"automatic-translations-in-google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/automatic-translations-in-google-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic translations in Google Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/bot01.jpg\" alt=\"Automatic translations in Google Talk\" align=\"left\" \/>Meeting new people and chatting with them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/talk\/\">Google Talk<\/a> can be a very enriching experience. The problem comes when that person and you don&#8217;t speak the same language and the communication flow is frequently interrupted by vocabulary lapses and constant dictionary look-ups. Google became aware of this issue and decided to solve it in a really handy way: by enabling a bunch of bots that automatically translate any text you type in into the target language.<\/p>\n<p>The translating bots in Google Talk work in a very simple way. You only have to select the ones you&#8217;re interested in from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/talk\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=89921\">the bot list<\/a> and add them to your Google Talk contact list, as if they were just another friend. There are quite a few combinations to choose from, and the email address you have to use to add them always follows the same pattern: [source language]2[target language]@bot.talk.google.com. Thus a bot that translates from English to German would be en2de@bot.talk.google.com, one that translates from Spanish to English would be es2en@bot.talk.google.com and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/bot02.jpg\" alt=\"Automatic translations in Google Talk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve added a bot, open a chat with it and type in the sentence you want to translate. The bot will reply with the translation, ready for you to copy on your friend&#8217;s chat window. Needless to say, you can use these automatic translations for multiple purposes: from being able to communicate in several languages to playing a joke on a friend or \u2013 only for the most cheesy ones \u2013 saying &#8220;I love you&#8221; in a dozen different languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting new people and chatting with them on Google Talk can be a very enriching experience. The problem comes when that person and you don&#8217;t speak the same language and the communication flow is frequently interrupted by vocabulary lapses and constant dictionary look-ups. Google became aware of this issue and decided to solve it in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/automatic-translations-in-google-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Automatic translations in Google Talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335963,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions\/335963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}