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Morning music: The Fresh Prince theme song, run through Google translate

In an interesting language experiment, the lyrics to the Fresh Prince theme song are translated through Google Translate into various languages and then back into English.

posted 16 January, 2013
by cranberryzero
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Google Translate for Android gets the ability to translate text from photos

Moving one step closer to a Babel fish-like translator, Google recently announced that the Translate app for Android would be getting optical character recognition (OCR) technology that would let you translate text from photos. So if you’re at a Chinese restaurant and you want to know what’s on the Chinese menu, just point, snap and read it in your language of choice.

Google Translate sings us a little song about Google Translate

So we’ve already seen how google translate can be used to create phat beats, but this guy from Taiwan created this awesome video where he took Google Translate and made it sing this weird GlaDOS-like song about… Google Translate.

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How to force Google Translate to beatbox

One smooth criminal Redditor named harrichr found that it is possible to make Google Translate’s audio function generate a beatbox sound. Here’s the process.

1) Go to Google Translate
2) Set the translator to translate German to German
3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4) Click “listen”

Or you can click here and listen to it in only one step.

And check out the Reddit thread for more awesome recipes.