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    Automatic Web Translation

    published on Mon. Apr. 23rd, '07 by Swami Atma

    Every few years I have been testing web page translators.

    For the most part they have been so disappointing that it was really not worth using them. I just tried Google Translator and I have been pleasantly surprised.

    At first I tried to translate the AYA pages and this blog from English to French and all made sense. Then I tried reading en English the Yoga Vidya home page and blog. Of course there are grammatical mistakes all over the place but the content becomes accessible.

    I'll definitely play more with this in the next few days/weeks.

    And the best part is that Google is working on a self-learning system that users can correct bit by bit so it should become more and more reliable as time goes on.

    The key to enjoy this service at this point is to not set your expectations too high. This cannot be used for a proper translation job but are fine to make sense of text written in a language we have no clue about.

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