Idea: Twitter Style Translation

Google revealed a prototype of Translation with Google Goggles yesterday.  A few weeks ago I was thinking if it makes sense to use twitter style translation service to connect foreigners with willing native speakers using mobile devices.  The system can implement several layers:

  • Machine intelligence (OCR, machine translation, etc.) acts as first response if no human helper is immediately available.
  • Fellow users translate and rate translations.
  • Human translations feed back to the machine translation data.

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