Besides translating, Google Translate could play an immense role in language learning. I feel a great feature that could be used by language learners would be text to speech by a native speaker (non- machine) and someone who has a similar accent (there has been some research suggesting learning a language with an accent is more effective).
This could be easily implemented by crowdsourcing the recordings in Gtranslate's site and giving it features for users to control the quality of the input. Depending on the level of involvement, even whole phrases could be translated (for example, this would be useful for French because words sometimes are spelled together or differently). Let me know if you consider this an interesting idea; I'd love to share more on the topic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
