Hi Szabo, Thanks for the thoughtful and great suggestions.
More specifics inline below: On Jan 9, 8:23 am, Szabo Tamas wrote: > I'm sure that many of us would like to help in it's improvement, if > they would know how. (I can change the translated words, but is that > good for anything?) In fact it is very good feedback when you make edits and corrections to the translated phrases. This feedback is actually much more useful than general free form edits. > My suggestions would be the following: > -Listen feature for longer texts This is coming soon. > -A box with letters (important if you have an english keyboard) We already have this for many languages, and are working on adding more. See: http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-screen-keyboards-on-google-translate.html > -Copy text We understand some users have trouble copying the translated text and we're looking at ways to make this easier. > -Download audio version for text Interesting suggestion. We'll consider it. > -Removability of languages, to keep only those which are used (There > are too many) We've got a number of ideas coming that we believe will help you with language selection, so hopefully you'll find it easier to select which language you want once we get some of those new ideas launched. > -Available for anyone to improve it > > For the last suggestion, what about this one: > There would be an application, or something that would translate > exactly like the online version, but you could improve it for yourself > and the application would store all the improvements in a file, which > i could send for an overview to improve the google translate. That way > no one would send crappy translations and get nowhere with it's > improvements. I believe these improvements would make a really big > difference on it, and everyone would see it more useful! This is a great suggestion too – but not the simplest to implement. We've got some things we're working on in this area too, and while I can't guarantee how quickly we'll get them launched, rest assured that we're working on it. Thanks again for the feedback. Best, Josh Estelle Senior Software Engineer Google Translate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
