Translator plug-ins
June 17, 2008 on 8:02 am | In Features | 23 Comments
A recent comment from a user prompted me to write on this topic. He said:
“You should add a translation program so we can talk to non native speakers in their language but see it in ours” – John
While we don’t have this feature built right in to Yahoo! Messenger, we do offer plug-ins that enable translation or look-ups during an IM conversation. These are conversation plug-ins which are meant to be used with a friend during an IM conversation. Here’s an overview of the translator plug-ins that are available.
Yahoo! IndiChat / ChitChat (Indian)
Launch this plug-in and you can type in English and have your message translated into one of eight Indian scripts (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Gujarati; ChitChat includes Punjabi). As you type, the English characters are displayed in Indian script and when you press the ‘Send’ button, it sends the message to your friend in the selected language.
IndiChat: More info & Install | Try it now
ChitChat: More info & Install | Try it now
Jhol (Indian)
Similar to IndiChat and ChitChat, Jhol lets you type your message in various Indian scripts. The main difference is that the Jhol interface includes a keyboard interface as an aid. More info & Install | Try it now
Dictionary
If you’re not a native English speaker and sometimes struggle with the IMs from your friends, Dictionary can help. The plug-in will display the latest message from your friend with links on each of the words. Click a link to see a word’s meaning from one of three sources – Wordnet, Urban Dictionary or Wikimedia. Even if you do speak English well, this can be a fun plug-in to test each other on word meanings. I still enjoy a good game of Dictionary every now and then.
More info & Install | Try it now
Plug-ins are available for Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 and 9.0. You can use plug-ins for your own use (tab plug-ins) or with a friend during an IM conversation (conversation plug-ins). Visit our plug-in gallery to find plug-ins for games, music, entertainment, news, utilities and more.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
i am not able to chat in Bengali
Comment by debajyoti — June 17, 2008 #
I am not able to chat in Malayalam in the IndiChat.
Please find a solution for this as soon as possible.
Its required urgently.
regards
Comment by zeeshan — July 6, 2008 #
they have a yahoo messenger built in english-italian / italian-english translator
Comment by nino — July 16, 2008 #
Please don’t bother with a chat plug in for any kind of translations! Just to make sure I stay on the translation topic, I can only say it is silly to create any plug in or add on for a chat program that doesn’t allow you to even log on. Thanks Yahoo! Keep up the mediocre work!!
Comment by comfortably_yum — July 22, 2008 #
[...] I think you are familiar with this plugin, because this feature is also avaliable in previous version. Youcan chat in your own language using translation plugin. For more info see this page. [...]
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i need a translator from english to spanish
Comment by bernice montano — July 14, 2009 #
i need a english german one. that translates my text into german as i type.
Comment by Random — July 15, 2009 #
[...] 3. Interpreter for Yahoo Messenger: [...]
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i need translator from english to arabic, i want to be able to chat with my friends
Comment by denise — October 24, 2009 #
i need a english-polish translator
or romanian – polish translator … if you can help thank you
Comment by pok3monu — November 7, 2009 #
thanks yahoo team for all the genius work youve been doing,please may i have an english to norwegian translator on messenger.thanks
Comment by evalyne — May 20, 2010 #
I use the translator to chat with a french speaker.
I am continually alternating my language pair from ‘french to english’ to ‘english to french to enable translation both ways.
Surely there is an efficient way to translate both incoming and outgoing messages?
Comment by P D Ryan — July 22, 2010 #
merci
Comment by koko — July 30, 2010 #
thanks for giving me a chance to tell you guys the problem im up to… i have an arab girlfriend and she is not that good in english… you know what im sayin’? i need an english to arabic (and vice versa) translator in Yahoo messenger that translate outgoing and incoming messages. . can you do that? thanks.
Comment by McAbu — November 23, 2010 #
PLEASE CAN YOU MAKE A TRANSLATOR FROM ENLISH TO SPANISH FOR YAHOO MESSENGER FOR OUTGOING AND INCOMMINGS MESSAGES,PLEASE HANK YOU
Comment by ALBERT — November 27, 2010 #
Please how do you find a plug in for english to madarian chinese
Comment by jimmy — January 4, 2011 #
please can you make a translator from English to spanish out going and incoming messages. Thanks for that.
Comment by kenneth obizaaky — April 6, 2011 #
please can you make a translator from english to spanish out and incoming mssages.
Comment by kenneth obizaaky — April 6, 2011 #
Is there a English to Italian translator on instant messenger on Yahoo
Comment by carryl.edwards — September 6, 2011 #
i need english to serbian and vice versa is this possible?
Comment by david honea — September 26, 2011 #
To begin with i prefer yahoo as is more secure than Hotmail but on msn messenger all you need to do is add as a contact mtbot@hotmail.com and it will translate to and from almost any given language world wide instantly in a live chat! .I have been using this free service for a couple of years now and though is not 100% correct always it does an excellent job can add extra contacts to the chat though not able to use webcam whilst using tbot. I am quite surprised that yahoo have not also done anything similar as is more world wide than Hotmail at a guess so more need for it, please yahoo at least give it a go! I hope this helps some as i got fed up of trying to find an I.M translator compatible with yahoo that is free and works; there simply is none available!
Comment by paul thomsom — January 7, 2012 #
is there translater from english to Ukraine and then back ? / thanks
Comment by mike — January 15, 2012 #