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.