June 18, 2009

Google Translate for Persian

Google has always released services that are useful to better understand major events: new imagery that shows the impact of Hurricane Katrina, special search engines for last year's earthquake in China, search trends for 9/11.

Google Translate included an early version of a translation system for Persian, in response to the recent events from Iran. "We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran. Like YouTube and other services, Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone's access to information," says Franz Och, from Google.

The translation tool can also be used to read articles from Iranian sites, but the quality is less than adequate. For example, here's the translation of the latest 50 Twitter messages tagged #Iran and written in Persian (Farsi).


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23 comments:

  1. Stretch MarksJune 19, 2009 at 12:08 AM

    That's amazing! I copy pasted Persian text from twitter to Google translate last night, and it wasn't yet supported!

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  2. Ben DaviesJune 19, 2009 at 12:12 AM

    Timely, thanks!

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  3. UnknownJune 19, 2009 at 1:21 AM

    Thanks for supporting Persian, it has many problem but for alpha version is good, and specially at this time the majority of people need it.

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  4. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 1:22 AM

    perfect. thank you

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  5. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM

    Thank you very much to be successful and win
    متشکرم خیلی زیاد موفق و پیروز باشید

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  6. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 1:25 AM

    thanks it was in the right time

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  7. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 1:36 AM

    however it is late comparing with other languages but REALLY thanks. now im wainting for google news for IRAN

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  8. MiximixJune 19, 2009 at 1:38 AM

    Thanks

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  9. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 1:56 AM

    Perfect, Thank you GooGle!!!

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  10. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 3:37 AM

    Thank you very much.
    omid from iran

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  11. AnonymousJune 19, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    thank you Google!

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  12. Mohammad HakimiJune 19, 2009 at 7:43 AM

    Thank you my dear Google!

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  13. Iman KarimiJune 19, 2009 at 8:43 PM

    I thought Google forget us, but now I just say thanks Google.
    متشکرم

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  14. AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 2:32 AM

    Google's translations are very incorrect - O.K. for tourist but not for really understanding Farsi language - be very careful with that. - Blessings - Rene

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  15. Adam GonzalezJune 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM

    Rene-Google is doing the very best they can

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  16. AnonymousJune 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM

    Thanks Google!
    Google FTW!

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  17. AnonymousJuly 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM

    Thanks Google!
    Dont Forget Us.

    امیدوارم به دلایل سیاسی این کارو نکرده باشه .

    ولی ما که چندتا مقاله هم جلو افتادیم

    It is freeDom!!!

    very Thanks

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  18. eyeJuly 7, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    خوش به حال تنبل ها

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  19. UnknownJuly 18, 2009 at 2:39 AM

    امیدوارم که ما ایرانیها بتوانیم از این فرصت به روش درست استفاده کنیم. از مدیران گوگل متشکرم

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  20. A Persian BoY from AfghanistanJuly 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM

    تشکر از گوگل به خاطر خدمات عالی شان.

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  21. AnonymousAugust 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM

    I love Google,life without google is so hard for me , thank you, thank you ,thank you .

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  22. AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    What is the error when the animation producer of Naruto, "Naoji Hohnokidani" became translated to "No sealing east"?

    In other languages e.g. Russian, it translates such names 岸本征史 (Masashi Kishimoto) translated to Масаси Кисимото, 西尾哲也 (Tetsuya Nishio) as Нисио Тэцуя etc.

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  23. PaulOctober 20, 2012 at 1:37 PM

    The biggest problem I have with Google is that when I save an email to read later I am unable to open it.
    It is all scrambled or NA, or has been deleted by Google?

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