Google Translation has added a few new features that may prove to be quite useful. One of the new features is the capacity to translate text from one language to another in real-time, i.e., the translation will take place as you type. No need even to press the Translate button! Google Translation already covers 51 languages that represent about 98% of the Internet users. Many websites (including Tech Superb) use online Google Translation services to offer their web pages to their users in the languages of their choice. For example, if you want to read this article, that you’re currently reading, in another language of your choice, simply select the language and grab the Translate button on this page and in a couple of seconds you’ll get this web page translated into the language of your choice, courtesy Google Translation.
Another useful feature added to Google Translation is a new input transliteration feature for Arabic, Persian or Hindi languages, though I may point out that Transliteration feature was already available as a separate service for some languages from Google; it appears that Google has now integrated transliteration into Google Translation. So, if you want to translate some text from one of these languages, but you can’t type the script for these languages on your keyboard, you can use Google’s input transliteration feature to type words as they sound (phonetic basic) and convert them to the native script of these languages. For using this feature, go the Google Translation site. Select English as your input language. Select any of the three currently supported languages Arabic, Persian or Hindi, as the target language. Now start typing a word in Roman characters (on phonetic basis) but that word should be in the selected language from of out of the said three languages. For example, when you select Hindi as the target language, and type “rashtrapati” (which means “President” in Hindi), you’ll see this word being transliterated into Hindi in real-time (i.e., as you type, no need to press any Translate button) and this word will be shown in the Devanagari script that is used to write Hindi language. See the following image:
The third new feature added to Google Translation is meant to help those who speak English to read and pronounce non-Roman languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, etc. For example, if some text is typed in a non-Roman language in the Input language box in Google Translation, you can click “Show romanization” button. This will show you the phonetic representation of the translation, due to which you can read that text not only in the translated form but also as it is pronounced in the native language. Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian languages are not supported currenlty for this feature. For an example, see the following image wherein some text in Chinese script is shown, which you may not perhaps be able to read; but, its meaning is “Today is a good day”; and the use of the “Show romanization” button displays this Chinese text in its Roman script but as pronounced in Chinese language as “jīn tiān shì yī gè hǎo rì zi”. This allows you to greet a Chinese friend in his own language, if you so wish.
Yet another new feature allows you to “hear” the translated text in English when you translate some text from another language to English. This can be done by clicking on the Speaker icon, as shown in the following image:
You can learn more about these features, by watching the following YouTube video from Google:
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I use google translate service and gtranslate firefox addon, which i found very useful.
With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it.