Gmail to offer real-time language translation

By Kathryn Edwards, Computerworld Australia | Internet, gmail, Google 1 comment

May 12, 2009, 11:56 AM — Google has announced it will launch real-time language translation in Gmail this week.

During a keynote address at the CeBit conference and exhibition in Sydney Tuesday, Google's product management director Matthew Glotzbach made the announcement, saying the integration should be available by tomorrow.

The new Gmail capability allows users to translate a foreign language e-mail in their inbox with one click.

Google has previously hinted at a translation service for Gmail.
Speaking about the benefits of cloud computing to the enterprise, Glotzbach touted the additional capabilities of cloud systems.

"Gone are the days when moving something to the web means losing functionality," he said. "Cloud computing is no longer an 'if' but a 'when' and when is now."

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chicon 2 years ago

The rapid improvement in translation software is great news. It is particularly a good achievement for Google to put it into Gmail. I look forward to testing it. However, with many of these translation software solutions they still cannot be relied upon for an accurate translation. We use the software to understand the general meaning, but when we have meetings we get a real intepreter and when we require a legal document translation. I will go and review the software and let you all know what I think.

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