gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » identify language http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Foreign Language Identifierhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/02/foreign-language-identifier/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/02/foreign-language-identifier/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:25:08 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10856 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.

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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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