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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 [...]

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Mon, June 22 2009 » Languages » 2 Comments

Featured site – Learn10

Learn10 was built to help people create a daily learning habit. The ethos is simple – once you become a member of Learn10 you’ll automatically be sent short, daily learning tasks – such as 10 new words in a foreign language. They use the range of current web technology so you’ll see your content on [...]

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Tue, March 31 2009 » Featured site, Languages » 1 Comment

Mloovi translates your RSS feed using 41 languages!

Thanks to recent developments over at Planet Google, we now offer 41 languages. The revised list is…
Albanian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

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Tue, March 31 2009 » Languages, Mloovi » 1 Comment

Writing for translation: controlled authorship

Last time we covered the idea of ‘controlled language’. Another concept that greatly improves both machine and human translation is ‘controlled authorship’.
Controlled authorship offers improvements to the writing process that make for better efficiency, and it reduces repeat work. Cost of human translation is often cited as the biggest bug-bear. However, by construction textual pieces [...]

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Tue, December 23 2008 » Languages, Mloovi, Tutorial » 1 Comment

Writing for translation

Using Mloovi is a great way to read and understand the world’s blogging output. Mloovi is also a great tool to offer on your blogsite, to get your message out to a much wider audience.
Currently we are employing a so-called ‘machine’ translation. That is, the translation spurted out of the end of Mloovi has been [...]

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Tue, December 16 2008 » Languages, Mloovi, Tutorial, Tweets » 2 Comments

35 languages down, only 6865 to go!

Mloovi, via Google Translate, currently supports 35 different languages. This has recently increased from 24, as reported here.
Well, depending on which source you read, there are around 6,900 spoken languages in the world today! However, before we task Google with the job of coding the translation protocols for all of them, we must take into [...]

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Tue, November 4 2008 » Languages » 1 Comment