[lac-discuss-en] translation software

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Paid version of Google Translate API now open for business :
http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2011/08/paid-version-of-google-translate-api.html

"Back in May, we announced the deprecation of the free Translate API
v1. Today, we’re introducing a paid version of the Google Translate
API for businesses and commercial software developers. The Google
Translate API provides a programmatic interface to access Google’s
latest machine translation technology. This API supports translations
between 50+ languages (more than 2500 language pairs) and is made
possible by Google’s cloud infrastructure and large scale machine
learning algorithms.

...The paid version of Translate API removes many of the usage
restrictions of previous versions and can now be used in commercial
products. Translation costs $20 per million (M) characters of text
translated (or approximately $0.05/page, assuming 500 words/page). You
can sign up online via the APIs console for usage up to 50 M
chars/month.

Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh
LACRALO Secretariat


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:02 AM, kent <kent at icann.org> wrote:
> My apologies for the recent non-functioning state of the automatic list
> translation software.  By an unfortunate coincidence, Google's
> translation interface stopped working at about the same time that I
> updated the software to make the changes mentioned in my note of August
> 2.  (Google had announced earlier that this could happen at any time.)
>
> It took a while to convince myself that the failures weren't simply a
> flaw in the code.  But ultimately I backed out all the changes I had
> made, and the failure continued.
>
> It seems unlikely that Google will completely abandon the work they did
> in this area, so one might expect that a different (possibly commercial)
> implementation will be available presently.  However there are of course
> no guarantees.
>
> In the meantime I have modified the code to use the old Alta Vista
> "babelfish" interface, to at least get some functionality back on line.
>
> As always, please don't hesitate to contact me, David Closson, or
> "tech-support at icann.org" if you experience problems.
>
> Best Regards
> Kent
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