Comments on: Polly Glotto http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2006/09/29/polly_glotto/ language-related musings - one language is never enough / ერთი ენა არასოდეს არაა საკმარისი Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:35:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Paul http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2006/09/29/polly_glotto/#comment-10214 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:13:21 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2006/09/29/polly_glotto/#comment-10214 Great idea! I'm not planning to use it on a website yet though. I'm not sure that it will say what I want. I notice that PollyGlotto often misses the first few letters of the translation - is it just me, or is there a bug? I also tried translating some phrases from English to another language and back again, both on PollyGlotto and BabelFish - here's some of what I got for the traditional English greeting "How do you do?": German - "How?" Greek - "What you make?" Japanese - "How it does?" and my favourite: Italian - "How fairies?" Great idea! I’m not planning to use it on a website yet though. I’m not sure that it will say what I want. I notice that PollyGlotto often misses the first few letters of the translation - is it just me, or is there a bug? I also tried translating some phrases from English to another language and back again, both on PollyGlotto and BabelFish - here’s some of what I got for the traditional English greeting “How do you do?”:

German - “How?”
Greek - “What you make?”
Japanese - “How it does?”

and my favourite:

Italian - “How fairies?”

]]> by: Polly http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2006/09/29/polly_glotto/#comment-9980 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:07:50 +0000 http://www.omniglot.com/blog/2006/09/29/polly_glotto/#comment-9980 Fantastic!:D Too bad there's nothing for Russian :(. тем не менее, I still have plenty of use for this site. I didn't think they had anything like this, yet. I use Babel fish and Worldlingo extensively for MT, but they don't offer voice. This is a wonderful tool! I've always wished for something that would "speak" whatever I'm reading so that I could hear it as it really sounds. I just hope it's more or less correct. Fantastic!:D Too bad there’s nothing for Russian :(. тем не менее, I still have plenty of use for this site.
I didn’t think they had anything like this, yet. I use Babel fish and Worldlingo extensively for MT, but they don’t offer voice. This is a wonderful tool! I’ve always wished for something that would “speak” whatever I’m reading so that I could hear it as it really sounds. I just hope it’s more or less correct.

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