Introducing Word Lens 16 years ago
The product seems amazing, but they are somehow cheating in the video.
The signs (in Spanish) have grammar mistakes, but they are automatically translated to correct English sentences. I have a few examples:
- The third sign says "Lo traduce el texto", but that sentence doesn't make sense. It should be "Traduce el texto" or even "Se traduce el texto".
- 'Ropas opcional' sounds strange to me, although it may be accepted in some countries.. It should be something like 'Ropas opcionales'.
I tried both examples in Google, Bing and Babel Fish and the results were OK, so I don't think that Word Lens translator is very accurate.
"Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to
apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke
such a question."