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[Glenn Slayden]

One thing I neglected to mention when I talked about my work on the Microsoft Bing translator project this summer is that the same system can be used to translate your Instant Message chats between languages (such as English and Thai) on-the-fly.

If you're ok with the limitations of machine translation, this is a very cool application of Thai-English and English-Thai machine translation.

Here's how. Add the following robot to your "Windows Live Messenger" contacts:

mtbot@hotmail.com

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"Tbot 2 Alpha" should show up in your contacts. Now you can speak to this 'bot' anytime to get quick translations. Open a chat with "Tbot 2 Alpha" and type:

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tbot ?

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To change or set up the source and target languages at any time, you can type:

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tbot change

Now for the best part. You can invite another person to this chat, and they can set up the reverse translation.

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Now you can each chat in your native language This is an experimental system but I hope you'll find it of use for informal chats and non-critical friendly communication.