{"id":35530,"date":"2011-10-07T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35530"},"modified":"2011-10-07T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:04:30","slug":"facebook-gets-universal-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35530-facebook-gets-universal-translator.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook gets universal translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> is using translation tools powered by <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> Bing to allow site members access to a universal translator feature.<\/p>\n<p>Public pages in foreign languages will display a \u201cTranslate\u201d link next to wall posts and comments, which when selected will translate the post into a user\u2019s default language for easy reading. The translated post will then feature an \u201cOriginal\u201d link, changing the post back to the original language used.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also sourcing information from users by providing them with a feedback window that allows you to offer a more accurate translation if you feel the meaning of the original post has been lost during the translation process. If your version of the translation gets enough votes by other site users, it will replace the original Bing translation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20116697-93\/facebook-launches-its-own-universal-translator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook now features a universal translator to make viewing of foreign language pages easier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,123,5468],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-microsoft","tag-translate-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35532,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35530\/revisions\/35532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}