Google Talk puts the Babelfish in your Fingers
Google wants to make you multilingual and has introduced a score of translation bots for Google Talk which can translate your words into other languages on the fly. To use the new service just connect to one of the bots, type your sentence in English and Google will spit out the same line in another language.
The translation bots can also be used in group chats for translation on the fly, but both you and the other user will need to connected to the respective bots. Given that there’s a Google Talk client for Blackberry you could probably use the service for translating real conversations as well.
Of course you’re at the mercy of the Google Translation service, so the translated text won’t be perfect. In fact, in my experience, Google’s translation service ranges from laughably bad to international incident causing bad. Of course chats tend to be informal and you’re recipient may be more forgiving than a head of state.
For a full list of language pair available, check out the Google Talk blog.
