On the Google GTalk blog yesterday, a set of Google bots that translate was announced. I played around with a couple for a bit. It doesn’t seem to be anything special; it is just a bot interface to the Google translation services. I noticed that if you group chat with several of them, the one with the best answer would respond. So for example, when I was chatting with nl2en and en2nl, if said “hello”, en2nl would respond with “Hallo”, and if I said “Hallo”, nl2en would respond with “Hallo”. Anyways, the GTalk blog post does not include the full list of addresses, so I did. Here it is:


ar2en@bot.talk.google.com, de2en@bot.talk.google.com, de2fr@bot.talk.google.com, el2en@bot.talk.google.com, en2ar@bot.talk.google.com, en2de@bot.talk.google.com, en2el@bot.talk.google.com, en2es@bot.talk.google.com, en2fr@bot.talk.google.com, en2it@bot.talk.google.com, en2ja@bot.talk.google.com, en2ko@bot.talk.google.com, en2nl@bot.talk.google.com, en2ru@bot.talk.google.com, en2zh@bot.talk.google.com, es2en@bot.talk.google.com, fr2de@bot.talk.google.com, fr2en@bot.talk.google.com, it2en@bot.talk.google.com, ja2en@bot.talk.google.com, ko2en@bot.talk.google.com, nl2en@bot.talk.google.com, ru2en@bot.talk.google.com, zh2en@bot.talk.google.com

I also made a contact list suitable for import in gmail, which includes full language names in the contact name.

CSV File: Gmail Contact List (csv) with GTalk Translate Bots