[lac-discuss-en] translation software

[David Closson]

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On 8/24/11 6:45 PM, "Dev Anand Teelucksingh" <devtee at gmail.com> wrote:

>Paid version of Google Translate API now open for business :
>http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2011/08/paid-version-of-google-transla
>te-api.html
>
>"Back in May, we announced the deprecation of the free Translate API
>v1. Today, we¹re 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 Google¹s
>latest machine translation technology. This API supports translations
>between 50+ languages (more than 2500 language pairs) and is made
>possible by Google¹s 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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