WMExperts.com pointed this out, and I immediatley had to pass it on. A new Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot allows you to get real-time translations to and from several languages right from the Live Messenger interface. Cool! Here's what the team blog for the Bot has to say:
"The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new
translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does
translations for you. Just add mtbot@hotmail.com
to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one
conversations with the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in
different languages with the bot translating for you. As usual,
remember that machine translation isn’t perfect – slang especially will
give the engine trouble.
You can also access Windows Live
Messenger on your smartphone to use the bot to translate simple
sentences while you’re traveling to other countries!
The translator bot is localized into all of the languages for which we have translation support on www.windowslivetranslator.com:
- English to/from:
- Arabic
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian (RUS->ENU only)
- Spanish
- Chinese Simplified <-> Chinese Traditional
More languages will be rolled out over the next several months."