Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 5:06 PM
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(Cross-posted on the Google Translate Blog)
Since we first launched the Website Translator plugin back in September 2009, more than a million websites have added the plugin. While we’ve kept improving our machine translation system since then, we may not reach perfection until someone invents full-blown Artificial Intelligence. In other words, you’ll still sometimes run into translations we didn’t get quite right.
So today, we’re launching a new experimental feature (in beta) that lets you customize and improve the way the Website Translator translates your site. Once you add the customization meta tag to a webpage, visitors will see your customized translations whenever they translate the page, even when they use the translation feature in Chrome and Google Toolbar. They’ll also now be able to ‘suggest a better translation’ when they notice a translation that’s not quite right, and later you can accept and use that suggestion on your site.
To get started:
- Add the Website Translator plugin and customization meta tag to your website
- Then translate a page into one of 60+ languages using the Website Translator
- Hover over a translated sentence to display the original text
- Click on ‘Contribute a better translation’
- And finally, click on a phrase to choose an automatic alternative translation -- or just double-click to edit the translation directly.
If you’re signed in, the corrections made on your site will go live right away -- the next time a visitor translates a page on your website, they’ll see your correction. If one of your visitors contributes a better translation, the suggestion will wait until you approve it. You can also invite other editors to make corrections and add translation glossary entries. You can learn more about these new features in the Help Center.
This new experimental feature is currently free of charge. We hope this feature, along with Translator Toolkit and the Translate API, can provide a low cost way to expand your reach globally and help to break down language barriers.
26 comments:
This. Is. Freaky. Awesome. At least, it will be if it works as well as you describe it working. If there would be a way to disable this (conditionally) for users it would be even worth a service to pay for (as in, that the site would get translated, but without all the fancy extras).
What a great service. I'll definitely make use of this.
wow, definitely awesome.
I installed the Google Translate plugin last night per this post. Great job, team.
Sorry to post this here, but I can't find any other place to report bugs:
I'm unable to click on any of the Sign In links via the plugin to edit the translations. Instead, all I get is an error page with the message, "The page you requested is invalid." I've tried different browsers, and all of the normal trouble shooting steps. Still no joy.
Side note: the "help" system is a joke. The error isn't listed in the self-help offerings, and the "send feedback" links send you in circles back to the Contact Us landing page. Therefore, there is no way to actually contact the dev team to report the bug. I know you need to stem the flood of messages you would normally receive, but this is simply absurd.
This is very useful! Will help multi language users for sure
The breakthroughs that are very useful...ty ☻
I've beeen using the Google translation and I have one MAJOR issue. The translations do not display my Adsense ads!! Does anyone know if this can be fixed?
I am getting the following error when trying to access this: https://translate.google.com/manager/add
Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.
If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it.
It's good that it has the option of users editing.
Great tool :-) Świetne narzędzie
those translation do keep getting better, but there still way too many mistakes in there as well.
So, in future, we don't need any language packs to translate a website?
Google always have a great tools and extensions thanks Google..
Excellent tool , Google have always awesome tool for people thats y i love google ...
This is great service. Thank you for sharing publicly...
I added the Google Translate plugin to my website yesterday, and have already contributed a few suggestions, but when I visit http://translate.google.com/manager/suggestions, where I am identified as the owner of my site, no suggestions appear.
How long does it take for suggestions to reach my inbox?
HELP!!! We are considering using Google Translate for our site, and we have engaged some users in different languages to make corrections where applicable.
When a user visits the site in Firefox or Chrome, the corrections are used for the page.
When a user visits the site in Internet Explorer, the corrections ARE NOT used for the page. The original translation is used.
Help! Our user community uses all kinds of browsers and we cannot standardize on one.
If Internet Explorer is not supported, please let me know as we may need a different platform for translations.
If there is a paid support option , please let me know, happy to pay.
This is regarding the widget.
Thanks!
Its great tool, but correction, suggestions and glossary is not working ! I see them on the back end, but not on site translation.
I tried enter correction from front end (the site) and i don't see them on back end and not on the site.
I try to enter then from back end (Google translate manager) I don't see them on the site translation.
Help is needed, because my site get very bad translation to Hebrew.
I tried to publish my corrections and glossary, nothing is working !
and a word to all those that can't open their staff.
the translation manager has been moved, so if you try to open suggestions, etc. from link you saved,
you get an error.
Look again for link from Google search, and update your bookmarks.
@Naomi Fridman
@Joe Segal
@Maria Delimpaltadaki
@ many other commentors...
Just like what other people mentioned, I'd like to report that there are MAJOR bugs with Google Translate. Basically contributed suggestions DO NOT appear immediately nor show up in the Suggestions section of the Website Translator manager. Added Corrections also DO NOT appear corrected on the site. When does this plan to be fixed?
I'm trying to see if I could use Google Translate tooklik for my company however when I try to correct a translation via "correction entries" tool by hovering over etc., it converts all the non-English characters that I submit (like è (alt+0232)) into ? so instead of seeing for example Atnè , page displays Atn?
Would anyone know how to fix/get around this issue?
Much appreciated.
Great tool especially for Turkish to Chinese. Thank you.
I am learning how to write Arabic using Google translate http://translate.google.com/#ar/en/ and it is very helpful. Sometimes it gets the translation incorrect. For example, if I type in "اياك" it translates to "EAC", but it should translate to "you alone". How do I provide feedback so the tool can be improved?
I red these things about google translate in tekwek.com first and in their post
http://www.tekwek.com/surf-websites-other-than-english-language-easily-with-google.html
google translate is really awesome ,it has changed my life
Yeah, the contribute to a better translation function does not work with certain text, actually, on my site it doesn't work with most text. It's really too bad because otherwise this would be an awesome tool. Has Google addressed the problem yet?
Where is the documentation for the google-translate-customization meta tag so that it can be a registered extension (http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions). Currently HTML validators flag it as an error as it is not registered.
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