New SDL Chat Translator launched

3/03/2009 12:05:00 PM

Posted by Helen Liley, eBusiness Manager

We have just launched our new version of SDL Chat Translator for AOL Instant Messenger 6.8. This integrates fully into the AOL Instant Messenger chat tool and provides real time, instant translations as you chat to your buddy online. Chat Translator also translates conversations from your buddy back into your language instantly and displays both languages onscreen at the same time so you can see the full chat.

Chat Translator works with AIM 6.8 which is the latest version of AIM released by AOL and enables you to chat to your buddy in your own language, and instantly translates the conversation into the chosen language of your buddy.
Similarly, it also translates the conversation from your buddy back into your language.

You can translate English into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as all of these languages translated back into English from within the chat conversation.

We’re also curious about regional versions of chat abbreviations which are commonly used in online chatting, text messaging and emailing. We know that these are used world-wide and there are different ones for different languages and countries.

So, in English, ‘LOL’ means ‘Laugh Out Loud’ and ‘ROTFL’ is ‘Roll On The Floor Laughing’, but 'BTW' (By The Way), what are the ones you use each and every day?

Post your favourite ones to our Blog by hitting the ‘Comment’ link, but don’t forget to say what language they are for, and what they mean. We’ll post them onto the Blog for everyone to see.

Or, let us have your abbreviations by joining our Official FreeTranslation.com Facebook Group. You can also tell us what other tools or services you’d like to see from FreeTranslation.com.