Does it happen often to you that you receive correspondence in a language that you cannot identify right away? Or that you stumble upon the most exciting website only to find out that you have no clue what language it is written in? If you are on the Internet you might want to try your luck with translation services like Google Translate. This will only work on the other hand if the language is one of the few supported of the service. But what if it is not? The first step of being able to understand the message is to identify the foreign language it was written in.
One excellent foreign language identifier is Polyglot 3000. The main – and only purpose – of the software program is to identify foreign languages. It does that by analyzing text that gets pasted into its interface. All that the user needs to do is therefor copy a sample of the text into the program interface and hit the F9 key to make the software analyze the text.
The software will display the identified foreign language afterwards giving a percentage value that is defining the recognition accuracy. The program will furthermore rate the recognition rate and display similar languages.
Polyglot 3000 is currently supported 474 different languages that it can recognize. The recognition can be narrowed down by only scanning for the most popular languages or only Cyrillic languages. The software program supports both Unicode and ANSI encodings.
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the babelfish firefox extension has this built in, you simply highlight and click “detect language”
Hah so it can detect languages like Finnish, Bulgarian or Armenian? Archer, the language identifier can identify way more languages than any automatic translator can.
this looks pretty awesome
ah, that may be so, martin, i have to admit i haven’t tried the one’s you’ve mentioned, but for many languages the babelfish extension is very quick and convenient.
Is this program trustworthy?
I’m getting a virus warning when i try to download it (ESET NOD32).
Is it just me?
Pretty interesting tool… I would need something like that as clients are not always aware which text is the source language in.