Google Translate, one of the best online translation tools which let’s you translate text or office documents to 58 international languages, just got better.
Now you can listen to the translated version of a text directly from Google translate. No need to use any other text to speech tool.
It works like this – go to Google Translate and enter the text which you want to translate in another language. Select the source and target languages and hit the “Translate” button to translate the paragraph in the target language.
So far so good, but you will also see a “Listen” button right below the text box. Hit that button and voila !
You can listen to the audio /voice translation of the text paragraph right away. Agree that the machine translation is sometimes funny to listen to, but this is very useful for visually impaired people or those who have reading difficulties. (see example)
Above one is an example of English to Hindi (India’s national language), you can choose any two language pairs and listen to the translated text. That’s really cutting edge, right ?
Some Fun With Google Translate Beatbox
While the audio translation of Google Translate is certainly useful in some situations, you can repurpose Google Translate to be used as a kind of online human beatbox.
To get this working, set both the source and target language to “German” and paste the following line in the text box (the following line certainly doesn’t mean anything)
pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
Then hit the “Listen” button and Google Translate will return a funny human beating voice .You can click this direct link for the beatbox effect, really funny !
Video :Google Translate Audio Translation And Beatbox
Don’t believe my words? Check out the following video to see Google Translate’s audio translation and the human Beatbox effect in action:
Hat tip to KeithDsouza for this amazing find !
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