Automatic Email Language Translator for a Business

[Lino]

Good Morning all of you.

In our company we have a lot of communication with China via email. However what we want to do is have every email that is sent out, automatically translated to Mandarin. Is this possible? Bearing in mind we use Microsoft Outlook and have an Exchange 2003 server.

Your thoughts on this?

 

[Lino]

Anyone?

 

[ramar]

Hire someone that speaks Mandarin?

Sorry, no idea. Try google. Most translation software translates word for word, usually losing the context of the language. Never really used any, ut i think you might struggle to find something that can automatically transalate e-mails accuratly.

 

[prod]

Hmm this would be an interesting project. You can use the Google AJAX API along with Outlook Win32 OLE hooks to manage outgoing emails. Something like: Get outgoing email body text -> Store body in text file -> Translate via API -> Replace old body text with new -> Send email.

Sounds like fun! ;D

 

[Lino]

Hmm this would be an interesting project. You can use the Google AJAX API along with Outlook Win32 OLE hooks to manage outgoing emails. Something like: Get outgoing email body text -> Store body in text file -> Translate via API -> Replace old body text with new -> Send email.

Sounds like fun! ;D

Damn, that sounds awesome. I guess I would need to write this?

 

[prod]

Damn, that sounds awesome. I guess I would need to write this?

Well yes, the only problem I just noticed is that, Google translate doesn't support Mandarin. Neither does BableFish. If default Chinese would suffice then your'e sorted.

Edit: Another problem is the weird encoding Chinese symbols uses, (GB2312) etc. If would be alot easier if the body text is allowed to be in the format ' Nǐ hǎo ' instead of ' 你好 '.