Mloovi now supports Farsi – Iran’s ‘Persian’ language
On 18th June, Farsi was added to the list offered by the Google Translate API, and hence our service.
By using Mloovi it’s now possible for Iranian bloggers to reach a much wider audience. It’s also possible for the rest of the world to ‘opt in’ to information coming from Iran. Simply enter the URL of an Iranian blogsite you’d like to understand, and Mloovi will do the rest.
I think we would all agree that the translation of Farsi, the most widely spoken and understood language across Iran and Afghanistan, is especially appropriate considering the democratic crisis ocurring right now. Not for the first time the internet is being used as the means to spread the opinions of a unhappy population – and it would seem that the development team at Google worked very hard to speed up the release of this facility.
According to Franz Och, principal scientist at Google…
We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran. (This) is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa – increasing everyone’s access to information.
As with all machine translation, it’s not perfect yet. And we’re launching this service quickly, so it may perform slowly at times. We’ll keep a close watch and if it breaks, we’ll restore service as quickly as we can.
It’s acknowledged that the Farsi translation isn’t as good as, for example, the Spanish one – but it’s early days. As time goes on the translation becomes more accurate as it is honed according to a growing database of results. Users can influence this, via the Google Translate website, by offering better translations as they see fit.
For far more information than I’d care to ’steal’ just pop over to here!
this site appears to be still under construction how to use the translation feature
where to begin
The site is functional, and being used by many people. We have translated hundreds of thousands of pages.
More information on basic use can be found by reading http://blog.mloovi.com/2008/09/what-the-heck-a-new-series/ and then the following tutorial pages.