Windows gets into the the translation business - and does a lousy job at it

11th September 2007, 01:53

This automated RSS Feed post is about: Like most online translators, Windows Live Translator (Beta) can take something from one language and turn it into garbled nonsense in another.
To be fair, it’s not always easy to translate things but this is one area where computers just aren’t very good. You can get a very basic sense of meaning but that’s about it.* Click the below image for a larger version of an attempt to translate a Japanese paragraph into English.

Here are a few gems.
Several times during my attempts to translate text, I receive an internal server error 500 as well.
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11th September 2007, 01:53	#1
Mr Robot Posts: n/a	Windows gets into the the translation business - and does a lousy job at it This automated RSS Feed post is about: Like most online translators, Windows Live Translator (Beta) can take something from one language and turn it into garbled nonsense in another. To be fair, it’s not always easy to translate things but this is one area where computers just aren’t very good. You can get a very basic sense of meaning but that’s about it.* Click the below image for a larger version of an attempt to translate a Japanese paragraph into English. Here are a few gems. Several times during my attempts to translate text, I receive an internal server error 500 as well. Technorati Tags: microsoft, translation, this is a suck Click here to read the full story.