Auto Translate

[stellar69]

Just to remove the language barrier I thought that could we have an auto translation feature on this forum? The auto translation should provide an option to covert any written text in english/other languages. Translate for Russia to English and Chinese to English would be really helpful.

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[Welsh]

Someone could just use google, or google translator. The point is that these aren't very accurate. Especially when a language has a lot of mutations. I don't know if you've realized but, it's quite obvious when someone is using google translator because it's very difficult to understand. Some languages it works better than others though.

[taesup]

Yea ... going to say no to this one mostly because auto-translation software isn't really the best right now. And I don't think we want to dump a lot of money and time into building out a feature that Google hasn't even gotten right yet.

To best explain what I'm talking about: http://xkcd.com/1425/

[stellar69]

Yea ... going to say no to this one mostly because auto-translation software isn't really the best right now. And I don't think we want to dump a lot of money and time into building out a feature that Google hasn't even gotten right yet.

To best explain what I'm talking about: http://xkcd.com/1425/

But can't we match google standards? At least we will be able to understand the basic meaning of the threads in other languages section.
Isn't there any way google translate could be integrated with the forum?

[NeuroticFish]

I use Chrome. If I want a page translated, right-click menu will help with that.
Conclusion: such feature is not needed built-in the forum. The ones needing it have the tools...

[stellar69]

I use Chrome. If I want a page translated, right-click menu will help with that.
Conclusion: such feature is not needed built-in the forum. The ones needing it have the tools...

I use a mobile. A windows phone. Google is rude and doesn't build a chrome for my browser. As google is rude, I refuse to use chrome in my PC and use Firefox instead.
That's why i wanted an auto translate.

[Madness]

Just to remove the language barrier I thought that could we have an auto translation feature on this forum? The auto translation should provide an option to covert any written text in english/other languages. Translate for Russia to English and Chinese to English would be really helpful.

I don't think it's needed on the forums to be honest . Pretty sure they won't build a translator from scratch so even using Google API or Bing or anything else won't give good results since you won't get the real meaning 100% , most of translators are made for translating words and not full articles .

[NeuroticFish]

I use Chrome. If I want a page translated, right-click menu will help with that.
Conclusion: such feature is not needed built-in the forum. The ones needing it have the tools...

I use a mobile. A windows phone. Google is rude and doesn't build a chrome for my browser. As google is rude, I refuse to use chrome in my PC and use Firefox instead.
That's why i wanted an auto translate.

I am also on mobile right now. And I did a test:
I copied this page link, I opened google translate in another tab, I pasted the link and I pressed Translate. It worked.

[stellar69]

I use Chrome. If I want a page translated, right-click menu will help with that.
Conclusion: such feature is not needed built-in the forum. The ones needing it have the tools...

I use a mobile. A windows phone. Google is rude and doesn't build a chrome for my browser. As google is rude, I refuse to use chrome in my PC and use Firefox instead.
That's why i wanted an auto translate.

I am also on mobile right now. And I did a test:
I copied this page link, I opened google translate in another tab, I pasted the link and I pressed Translate. It worked.

Worked for me too.
But wouldn't this become a unique forum if we have this feature?

[dserrano5]

Just to remove the language barrier I thought […]
[…] would be really helpful.

But wouldn't this become a unique forum if we have this feature?

So we've gone from "really helpful" "to remove the language barrier" to "become a unique forum". Well in a way you're acknowledging it isn't absolutely necessary, aren't you?

I refuse to use chrome in my PC and use Firefox instead.
That's why i wanted an auto translate.

¿Have you looked for plugins?

[stellar69]

Just to remove the language barrier I thought […]
[…] would be really helpful.

But wouldn't this become a unique forum if we have this feature?

So we've gone from "really helpful" "to remove the language barrier" to "become a unique forum". Well in a way you're acknowledging it isn't absolutely necessary, aren't you?

I refuse to use chrome in my PC and use Firefox instead.
That's why i wanted an auto translate.

¿Have you looked for plugins?

Well this will remove the language barriers and will make the forum unique too!

I hardly use my PC to open this website and so using plugins is not a good idea.
Nothing is absolutely necessary but it would be good if someone can make this happen!

[Welsh]

Well this will remove the language barriers and will make the forum unique too!

I hardly use my PC to open this website and so using plugins is not a good idea.
Nothing is absolutely necessary but it would be good if someone can make this happen!

It would become annoying for the users who do speak the language. It looks messy when something is translated. My native language isn't translated very well. A lot of words work in some sentences but, don't in others he though the meaning in English is correct, in Welsh it looks ridiculous. I should imagine a lot of the other languages are too. I've started learning Norwegian which is another one which doesn't translate all that well. It's not needed, if you want to get the gist of something someone is saying just copy it and input that into google translate, you can do that on whatever platform you have.

[taesup]

Well this will remove the language barriers and will make the forum unique too!

I hardly use my PC to open this website and so using plugins is not a good idea.
Nothing is absolutely necessary but it would be good if someone can make this happen!

It would become annoying for the users who do speak the language. It looks messy when something is translated. My native language isn't translated very well. A lot of words work in some sentences but, don't in others he though the meaning in English is correct, in Welsh it looks ridiculous. I should imagine a lot of the other languages are too. I've started learning Norwegian which is another one which doesn't translate all that well. It's not needed, if you want to get the gist of something someone is saying just copy it and input that into google translate, you can do that on whatever platform you have.

This. ^

In my experience (I speak roughly three languages, all eastern based), all translation tools suck unless you have a human in the mix. It's not worth the effort to build a mediocre tool that hardly works.

[H1N1]

I don't think the guys in foreign boards want it full of autotranslated garbage, bad idea.

[HeroC]

Good idea in theory, but Google translate are not the best at translating. A word or two, sure. Entire paragraphs? Not so much...

[Mikez]

I don't think the guys in foreign boards want it full of autotranslated garbage, bad idea.

It goes both ways, it would be annoying for the to see broken auto-translated into english posts in english sections as well.

[cryptopaths]

Even if the translations aren't the best they give you the ability to get the idea of what the person is saying and it would be great for making the forum more unified and accessible to more people. I'm in favor of this.

[Muhammed Zakir]

Even if the translations aren't the best they give you the ability to get the idea of what the person is saying and it would be great for making the forum more unified and accessible to more people. I'm in favor of this.

You can easily do this by using Google Translator. I don't think it is necessary but if we have enough time and enough people for translations, then this can be added. It is a heavy work unless if we can get translations from any other website/person.

   -MZ

[Zawamiya]

or add the google translate script on top bar where user can choose the languages they want to translate