Babel fish translation service

Date: 01/01/1997Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free web-based multilingual translation application. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator, to which queries were redirected. Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation services to Bing Translator, it did not sell its translation application to Microsoft outright. As the oldest free online language translator, the service translated text or web pages between 38 languages, including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.The internet service derived its name from the Babel fish, a fictional species in Douglas Adams’s book and radio series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that could instantly translate languages. In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel.HistoryOn December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation and SYSTRAN S.A. launched AltaVista Translation Service at babelfish.altavista.com, which was developed by a team of researchers at Digital Equipment. In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In July 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!.The web address for Babel Fish remained babelfish.altavista.com until May 9, 2008, when the address changed to babelfish.yahoo.com.As of May 30, 2012, the web address changed yet again, this time redirecting babelfish.yahoo.com to www.microsofttranslator.com when Microsoft’s Bing Translator replaced Yahoo Babel Fish.Yahoo! Babel Fish should not be confused with The Babel Fish Corporation founded by Oscar Jofre, which was operated at the URL www.babelfish.com (created in 1995).As of June 2013, babelfish.yahoo.com no longer refers to the Microsoft Bing Translator. Instead, it refers directly back to the main Yahoo.com page.

Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based machine translation service by Yahoo!. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected.[1] Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation services to Bing Translator, it did not sell its translation application to Microsoft outright.[2][3] As the oldest free online language translator,[4] the service translated text or Web pages in 36 pairs between 13 languages,[4] including English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.Quick Facts Type of site, Owner ...Yahoo! Babel FishType of siteTranslation serviceOwnerYahoo!URLbabelfish.yahoo.comCommercialNoLaunchedDecember 9, 1997; 27 years agoCurrent statusDefunctCloseThe internet service derived its name from the Babel fish, a fictional species in Douglas Adams's book and radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that could instantly translate languages.[5] In turn, the name of the fictional creature refers to the biblical account of the confusion of languages that arose in the city of Babel.On December 9, 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and SYSTRAN S.A. launched AltaVista Translation Service at babelfish.altavista.com,[6] which was developed by a team of researchers at DEC.[4][7] In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc.[8]In July 2003, Overture, in turn, was taken over by Yahoo!.[9]The web address for Babel Fish remained at babelfish.altavista.com until May 9, 2008, when the address changed to babelfish.yahoo.com.[10]In 2012, the Web address changed again, this time redirecting babelfish.yahoo.com to www.microsofttranslator.com when Microsoft's Bing Translator replaced Yahoo Babel Fish.[11]As of June 2013, babelfish.yahoo.com no longer

Yahoo Babel Fish Translation ToolJust when I almost forgot that Yahoo owns Altavista, Yahoo goes and integrates one of the only reasons I still visit Altavista into Yahoo; Babel Fish.Now branded Yahoo Babel Fish (with a big Advil expanding ad next to the translation tool which is great targeting as I have a splitting headache), Yahoo is also adding their site and text translation tool into the Yahoo Toolbar.Barry Schwartz quotes on SEW Blog :“You can translate a block of text up to 150 words and conduct a search based on translated text. Users can also enter any URL into a “Translate a Web Page” box to convert the text of an entire Web page. In both instances, users select from an extensive list of 38 language pair choices. In addition, Babel Fish one click translation is available through the a button that can be added to the Yahoo! Toolbar.”Publishers can also add Babel Fish translation to their sites. From Yahoo:Adding Babel Fish Translation to your site is free and easy. Simply choose the tool (or tools) you want for your site, click the “I want this one!” button, then copy and paste the single line of code into your page. Take your pick from two powerful tools. SEJ STAFF Founder at Foundation Digital Loren Baker is the Founder of SEJ, an Advisor at Alpha Brand Media and runs Foundation Digital, a digital marketing ...

In 2017, Google came out with headphones that could translate most languages in real time (kind of). For fans of Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, it was like the Babel Fish made flesh. (For the uninitiated, the Babel Fish is a fictional implantable device in the series. It allows the user to listen to any language and translate it into their native language immediately.)For travelers looking to ensure they don’t get lost in a country where they don’t speak the language, the technology seems incredibly promising.But most people familiar with translation software and bots know that they aren’t all that accurate. In fact, translating your favorite song into another language and then back again with any one of these programs almost always produces laughable results.So if software, including Google Translate, isn’t very good, how do translation headphones stack up? Read on to discover the good, the bad, and the ugly.Do the translation headphones work?The first thing you want to know is whether they work or not. The answer isn’t precisely clear-cut and might work for some people, depending on the situation.For people who would be depending on them for complex translation, they don’t cut it. But for people who are just looking for simple translations when they’re navigating a country or having simple conversations, they can help two people understand each other fairly successfully.Let’s examine some of the major pitfalls and a few of the positives of the headphones.They can work if you speak slowly and free

2011 2:31 am Re: QTranslate V.2.3.1 #9 Post by lautrepay » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:54 am I added QTranslate to the database. If you like it or find it useful, you can vote here.Contrary to what I thought, Microsoft's translation service is very good, and often better than Google Translate, at least from/to Spanish. On the other hand, Yahoo! Babel Fish is practically useless. webfork Posts: 10837 Joined: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:06 pm Location: US, Texas Contact: Re: QTranslate V.2.3.1 #12 Post by webfork » Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:29 pm I found reading the entry a little disruptive with the listing of multiple hot key functions in the text, so I moved those down to a separate part. I know we're not really in the habit of listing all of a program's shortcuts, but want to keep them in in this case as that's one the major attractions to this program. Toxteth O'Grady Posts: 184 Joined: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:06 am QTranslate #13 Post by Toxteth O'Grady » Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:01 am Version 3.1.1 has been released.Babylon (translation.babylon.com) was added to the available services. I don't know if anything else was changed. lautrepay Posts: 731 Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am Re: QTranslate #14 Post by lautrepay » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:03 pm Toxteth O'Grady wrote:Version 3.1.1 has been released.Babylon (translation.babylon.com) was added to the available services. I don't know if anything else was changed.Updated,thanks! giulia Posts: 549 Joined: Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:09 am Re: QTranslate #15 Post by giulia » Sat Jul 07, 2018 9:26 pm QTranslate 6.5.2 is outchangelogNew: History export to JSON formatNew: Kannada and Tamil languagesNew: Portuguese Europian localizationNew: 'Pin when dragging' popup window optionNew: Proxy scheme optionFixed: DeepL translation serviceUpdated: libcurl to 7.59.0

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy,"