CMSMS (MLE) plus Google Translate API

[tomgsd]

Hi all,

I've just been having a look at the Google Translate API (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation) and wondered if anyone had looked into the possibility of some sort of integration into CMSMS?

I'm thinking about starting a module to auto-convert content into different languages in the mle version and wondered if anyone had already had a look at doing something like this?  If so, did you find it feasible?

It could be useful for users who can't afford to pay for translation or have a lot of different languages.  Obviously, the quality wouldn't be as good but it could be a decent alternative.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts (or shout-downs if this already exists somewhere and I'm just been blind!).


Tom

[alby]

Hi all,

I've just been having a look at the Google Translate API (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation) and wondered if anyone had looked into the possibility of some sort of integration into CMSMS?

I'm thinking about starting a module to auto-convert content into different languages in the mle version and wondered if anyone had already had a look at doing something like this?  If so, did you find it feasible?

It could be useful for users who can't afford to pay for translation or have a lot of different languages.  Obviously, the quality wouldn't be as good but it could be a decent alternative.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts (or shout-downs if this already exists somewhere and I'm just been blind!).

I have released TranslationManager module that has this possibility (with babelfish also)
This replaced $mle_translation array that with 1.5.3 is DEPRECATED and dropped in next versions

Alby