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More love for our multilingual Toolbar users
April 14, 2010
(Cross-posted from the
Google Translate Blog
)
Last July
we enabled automatic page translations
in Google Toolbar and we’ve been thrilled by the positive response. Today, we’re taking another step to make automatic translation easier. Now, if Google Toolbar’s default language is set to one of our
supported languages
, you can use our new Word Translator feature to hover over a word with your mouse and get an automatic instant translation. If you want Toolbar to translate into a different language, you can change it in the Toolbar Options menu.
Entire page translations are great if you have little knowledge of a given language. However, if you’re a multi-lingual user who just needs certain words translated, hovering is a lot quicker than searching word-by-word on Google Translate.
Here is an example of the word “vitesse” (speed) translated from French to German:
The new Word Translator feature is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. And if you use Google Chrome,
automatic page translation
is already built in, and we're working to build more Translate features.
We hope this helps you browse pages in non-native languages faster, regardless of your language proficiency.
Install the latest Toolbar
version and give it a try!
Posted by Dmitry Gozman, Software Engineer
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