Chevalier Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4708 days ago 53 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English
| Message 1 of 4 08 January 2012 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
Hello guys,
Today on CNN website, I read an article about a man (creator of reCAPTCHA) who wants to translate the whole web into all major languages with the help of voluntary users.
He developed a website for language learning, where basically, by translating sentences, you're helping to translate the internet.
It's very interesting, it also says that you help digitalize books by writing the "reCAPTCHA".
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"Luis von Ahn founded the company behind CAPTCHA
He used that technology to help digitize old books
His new project provides a free way to learn languages and thereby translate the Web".
Some statistics say that in 5 weeks, 100,000 users could translate the Spanish Wikipedia into English.
What do you guys think about it?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 4 08 January 2012 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
Related thread here:
Duolingo
As for the 5 weeks, well, maybe if the registration process was a bit faster (I registered around Dec 20th and still haven't got an email confirmation)...
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napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5017 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 3 of 4 08 January 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Related thread here:
Duolingo
As for the 5 weeks, well, maybe if the registration process was a bit faster (I registered around Dec 20th and still haven't got an email confirmation)... |
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Me neither... :-(
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tbreit Newbie United States Joined 5216 days ago 17 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 4 of 4 09 January 2012 at 1:33am | IP Logged |
I registered a week before Jeff did and am still waiting. I registered again a couple weeks later thinking they did not receive my info, still waiting. I will have to wait for the rest of the people to translate the web for me:)
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