Google wants to help us communicate easily with other foreign language users. The Google Chat Bots will translate words in real time via instant messaging. Google is also planning to convert them into sounds for visually impaired users.

There are plenty of free translation sources available on the web and Google Talk offers an additional one, which many users may like when they chat with overseas friends or clients. Google Talk uses Chat Bots which are translation bots, a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and translates the words or sentences in real time.

In the picture you see, as soon as we type the words that need to be translated, the Chat Bots translate the words and sends an instant message. The Gmail also has Google Talk built in, so we don't need a separate desktop application to use this feature.

To do this we have to add this Chat Bot as our contact in Google Talk. In the picture above, which uses Spanish translation, one needs to add en2es@bot.talk.google.com, where the first part “en2es” refers to “English to Spanish”.

Google uses these abbreviations based on ISO codes.

You can use this as a foreign language interpreter in chat discussions or as a pocket translator to translate your words. This feature can be used in Mobiles like Blackberry as well. This may come in handy when you want to find a quick translation, no need to have a foreign language dictionary.

In total Google has the following combinations you can choose to translate (just add the bot.talk.google.com, after these abbreviations:

• ar2en (Arabic to English)

• de2en (German to English)

• de2fr (German to French)

• el2en (Greek to English)

• en2ar (English to Arabic)

• en2de (English to German)

• en2el (English to Greek)

• en2es (English to Spanish)

• en2fr (English to French),

• en2it (English to Italian)

• en2ja (English to Japanese)

• en2ko (English to Korean)

• en2nl (English to Dutch)

• en2ru (English to Russian)

• en2zh (English to Chinese)

• es2en (Spanish to English)

• fr2de (French to German)

• fr2en (French to English)

• it2en (Italian to English)

• ja2en (Japanese to English)

• ko2en (Korean to English),

• nl2en (Dutch to English),

• ru2en (Russian to English)

• zh2en (Chinese to English)

Other languages will be added soon.

The next step for Google is to use this machine translation and instant messaging features to make them convert to speech with AxsJax (Access Enabling Ajax language). This will help visually impaired users to hear them as they are translated in Google Chat.