Google Talk Gets One Step Closer To The Ultimate Babel Fish
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Google now offers instant machine translation in Google Talk, a step on the road to the ultimate Babel Fish.
The new service is used by adding a translation bot to a Google Talk chat, for example adding en2zh@bot.talk.google.com…
