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Using Google as a Hindi to English dictionary
Posted on: August 11, 2008 ⋅Last modified: August 15, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
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Recently, an employee at a client’s place was trying to understand an article in Hindi. She came across a word मूल्य वर्धित (Mulya Vardhit) in Hindi. She wanted to know its meaning. Me and other people in the room started guessing and arguing, based on the context, in which the term was used. But no one was sure. Leaving others to guess, I did the following:
- Went to Google Indic Transliteration at http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic
- Typed in Mulya Vardhit (in English) in the text area. It showed me Mulya Vardhit in Hindi (note that this is transliteration and not translation).
- Selected Mulya Vardhit in Hindi, right clicked and selected Copy. Basically copied Mulya Vardhit’s text in Hindi.
- Note: The above step saved me from typing in Hindi using a Hindi virtual keyword (for example).
- Then I went to Google Translate at http://translate.google.com/translate_t
- On the tab “Text and Web”, I pasted (CTRL-V) the hindi text into the text area (labelled as “Original Text”).
- From the dropdowns, I selected Hindi >> English.
- Clicked on Translate.
- I popped up and declared to everyone that “Mulya Vardhit” stands for “Value Added”. The person was reading an article about mobile services and the article was talking about some “value added” servcies.
Obviously there may be other, quicker or better ways to Hindi to English. But this is the Google way!
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It’s nice finding. bcz it’s quite tough to install the dictinory like “Hindi to English ” or “Enlish to Hindi” on computer.
so it’s very quicker way to the find words meaning.
FYI..
google has implemented this logic on most of his site like “www.orkut.com” etc.
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Slightly long drawn process, but I am sure you have provided some “mulya vardha” (value addition” here.
Might be a good idea to check out it translation works for complete sentences, even paragraphs.
Also, have you tested this for other Indian languages?
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Well, its kinda opening the two Google sites in Web Browser tabs. Write, copy, paste, click translate.
You can use the translation for an entire website. For example:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharatjain.com&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=en&tl=hi
Note the title of your blog
After noticing the title, please note that most sentences in the Blog entries have gone meaningless.
When Google translation services for Hindi was launched, I floated it around in a mailing list for Hindi language consultants. To summarize the responses – “not bad as an initial effort, by Google”. No one commended about its quality or accuracy.
United Nations India (who is a client) has been looking for a translation service. Had tested Google Translate against some of the UN web sites and found examples like SE (which stands for Solution Exchange) was expanded and translated to Dakshin Purv (दक्षिण पूर्व).
Are you trying to cross check that I indeed can’t read (and write) Tamil ?
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I want Google dictionary to hindi to english
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Hi Swapnil,
Didn’t understand your comment. Are you looking for English to Hindi ?
If yes, jump to step 5 (as in the blog post) and in step 7, select English >> Hindi
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I want to know, if i type in english that has to come meaning in Telugu pls can u people can help me . Gime some web site…..thanks
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Prasad,
Check this out http://www.aksharamala.com/telugu/e2t/ Hope it helps
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Go to translation companies and get a free quote
I don’t trust google in translating a document, article and webpages or anything.
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Jane, Ofcourse translation done by humans is going to be accurate than the machine.
Having said that, Google’s translation is still a handy tool for single word translations.
PS: While I’m okay about you promoting your services/site via comments on this blog, please refrain from using advertisement lingo like “free”. What I understand is the quote/proposal is free, but not the services (obviously).
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