translation robot you can invite to your wave

[Andrew Hitchcock]

Aunt-Rosie, Rosy Etta's friend


Google Wave used to have a real time language translation robot named Rosy Etta. Unfortunately it isn't currently available, so I had to write my own. I named my translation bot Aunt Rosie after my aunt and as a tribute to the original Rosy.


To get started, you should add aunt-rosie@appspot.com to your contacts. Now invite her to a Wave.

Aunt Rosie will automatically insert a language drop down into your blip when you've typed enough for her to recognize your language. Select the language you'd like to translate to and she'll reply with the translation. Easy as pie.


Aunt Rosie uses Google's machine translation software as her backend. She speaks all the languages Google supports. She is written in Java and runs on Google's App Engine.

[monster]

Although you run the risk of starting an international incident with less than perfect translations,you can communicate with anyone who has Google Wave anywhere in the world no matter what language they speak.