Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you this fine day?
Me?
Iím feeling particularly well-connected to my entire community because I speak the language
theyíre speaking to me and I do that through the use of Google Translate.
Have you checked it out yet?
It is awesome.
If you havenít seen it, stick around.
Even if youíve seen it, stick around.
You might learn something new today on DottoTech.
Every once in a while, as I browse through the community in my YouTube channel or even
my email, I get somebody whoís communicating with me in a language which I donít speak.
Thatís pretty easy to do since English is the only language.
I got a little bit of French because I live in Canada, but basically itís English.
So I get a post like this in the channel which is from my good friend, Jan Busk, who said,
I donít know, something about but I recognized my name and it was a comment.
I get this, every couple of weeks I get one and I look forward to it because it gives
me the opportunity to use one of the coolest piece of technology on the planet ñ Google
Translate.
Now itís not perfect.
Itís far from perfect but itís serviceable.
Itís functional.
Itís humorous at times and it works like this.
Hereís what I do.
I take the comment from the person in the language.
Actually when I first saw this, I didnít recognize.
Itís actually in Swedish.
I thought it was maybe Dutch.
I donít know.
Maybe it was just this last e umlaut [phonetic 00:01:30] over the A. I just thought it was
Dutch.
At any rate, what you do is you go over and you just go into Google Translate.
Launch it in your browser and itís a simple interface.
Theyíve got a field for you to enter the text in and then the translation field.
Itís so smart that as soon as I paste the text in, it detects that itís Swedish.
It auto-detects language.
You donít even have to know what language it is and then it translates it into whatever
language the destination is.
In this case, itís in English.
So he said, ìIs more in Evernote than I thought.
That DottoTech Steve Dotto is not so stupid.î Iíll say Iím not so stupid.
Look what I know how to do.
I know how to read Swedish.
So what I do now, of course, is I write a reply translated into Swedish and itís probably
going to be quasi-good.
This isnít the most perfect translation.
Iím sure they didnít mean to say that Iím not so stupid and if they did, well good on
them.
At any rate, I write back saying, ìI love Evernote.
It works awesomely for me.î I sent that back in Swedish.
I posted it and hopefully, they get a smile and a laugh out of it as well.
Now when I decided to do this demo, I thought okay, thatís kind of practical and itís
got some function right here.
There are also some wonderful YouTube demos by the way or YouTube videos of people taking
lyrics and translating them through Google translate several times and then coming back
and singing the song.
There are some hilarious stuff.
Iíll put a link in the notes to one of the funniest channels that I found on YouTube
about that.
Having said that, a far more practical use of Google translate is when youíre travelling,
when youíre in another country.
Instead of carrying that guide book and the translation book and looking up words, there
are the smartphone apps.
Here it is running in Android.
The smartphone apps are off the charts as far as functionality.
Not only can you type in and get the translation immediately but you can also speak it in and
have it spoken back to you, which makes it awesome if youíre in a cab, if youíre in
a restaurant, if youíre in a hotel, just getting around any other country.
So you choose the languages that are available from this list of languages right here.
There are all the different ones.
So if you want to go from English to Italian, you can now type in or speak in what you want
to say.
Letís see.
ìExcuse me, do you know what time the next bus comes?î Mi scusi fa a saoere a che ora
arriva il prossimo autobus?
How cool is that?
And then you save them.
You see each phrase that you create, you can save here as a phrase as well so that you
can quickly pick the common phrases that you want.
So you build your own phrase book.
You could use this to I guess learn the language but by in large, this is just going to get
you by in difficult situations.
All available, all 100% free.
Google Translate, it blows my mind, the intelligence in the programming that it goes into a program
like this.
For both the desktop and obviously the mobile version, it just absolutely rocks.
I hope that I rocked you today a little bit.
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So until next time, Iím Steve Dotto.
Have fun storming the castle!