Google translates websites to Filipino
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 09:59:00 11/28/2008
Filed Under: Internet, Technology (general), Online
ANGELES CITY, Pampanga -- That website sounds Greek to you? A new service by Google promises to translate it in Fillipino.
The service can translate any website written 34 languages to Filipino, according to Google's announcement.
The Philippines is the first country in Southeast Asia to get access to this free service, Google said.
Users can go to http://translate.google.com.ph, cut and paste original text from a website - including Chinese characters, for example, and then translate it to either English or Filipino.
It also allows users to search for Filipino keywords in foreign-language webpages automatically translated into Filipino.
Included in Google's suite of translation tools is a widget that can be placed in a website containing text in Filipino. When clicked, it translates text into any of the 34 languages available.
The service also allows Filipinos to contribute to improve translation capabilities further.
"When users come across an inaccurate translation, the tool allows them to suggest a better translation than the machine translation,” said Derek Callow, Google marketing head for South Asia, in a statement.
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