Subject: AUT: Re: Browswers and web translation on the spot
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:20:12 -0600


Cool.  I'll try it soon.  Funny, I own Opera, but never tried it for this.
It is my favorite browser.

Thanks Harald.

Chris
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From: "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; <ait-iwa-talk-AT-list.uncanny.net>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: AUT: Browswers and web translation on the spot


> It is the first time I have written an e-mail of this kind.
> But I'll do some promotion of a product here, as I am
> intrigued.
>         I just downloaded the latest browser from Opera,
> that is  6.0. (I use the non-Java version, as I never
> once encountered any problems with that, so it is just
> 3.2 mb). But apart from it being fast, functional and
> neat, what made me write this, was trying out its
> translation-on the-spot function. (Mark what you want
> translated, right click the mouse, and choose from
> the menu that pops up, the language you want the
> text translated to).
>         I've tried it out a few times on different paragraphs
> from English to Spanish. To my great surpise the
> translation, which appeared almost immediately, was very
> accurate, and even  in my non-native ears, at least
> grammatically correct. I cannot imagined this to be true
> each and every time, but even so.
>         You have the following translation options on the
> menu: From English to French, German, Italian,
> Portuguese and Spanish. From  French to Dutch, English,
> German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. From German
> to English and French. From Italian to English and French.
> From Portuguese to English, and finally from Spanish
> to English and French.
>       There is also a dictionary and encyclopedia (as well
> as "search," "search with," "copy text" and "send by e-
> mail ") loption on the pop-up menu, but I have not tried
> these out. Anyway it was the simple and seemingly accu-
> rate translation on the spot (from one word, a line, a paragraph
> to the whole article) that interested me personally/
> potlically, and made me write this, as I thought it might
> interest others to.
>
> Harald
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