Early this year we saw Facebook coming up with a translation utility allowing members to translate the widely popular social networking site to their respective languages. Today the site is available in 65 languages.
Starting this October, Facebook has taken that initiative further ahead by making the translation tool available to other websites as well. The tool is named Translations for Facebook Connect.
Now how does this thing work. Basically, Facebook is asking users to submit translations of popular and common phrases and then based on public voting will decide which of them are most accurate and appropriate. So now I could share say a local portal with my friend abroad by just logging into the application using my Facebook ID and password.
It differs from the already existing Google Translate at the very method of translation. While Google’s automated service produces funny (unintentional though) results at times, the Facebook system is expected to do away with that problem. Indeed a human approach always makes more sense. Software based translation may seem accurate enough at phrase level but they tend to fail when it comes to generating full sentences with correct grammar.
Here’s a link to the application.
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so is it applicable for any non fb page!!
or is it limited to facebook page only
its supposed to work for the other sites too. but that feature is presently available only to developers. hasnt been fully rolled out yet.
one more feather in the cap for facebook
so true. like the way you put it.
Nice info
. Thanks for sharing.
thanks Shabnam.
Hi, I’m having a FB and main app of a product and it requires translation for both Fb and site as well. I tried using FB transation setting in my app to translate it. My question is how to get the untranslated strings of my app so that they can be translated in diff languages ?? Right now its showing minimal phrases. M i missing something?