Babel Fish (website)
- For the other translation service see Babel Fish Corporation
Babel Fish is a internet-based application developed by AltaVista which machine translates text from one of several languages into another. It takes its name from the Babel fish, a fictional animal used for instantaneous language translation in Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It can translate to and from English and: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
It can translate to and from French and: English, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish.
Several online services have been implemented that use the Babel Fish service to translate back and forth between English and another language, often with humorous or strange results – called a "round-trip" translation.
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Categories: Machine translation