Google Talk Translating Bot

Google Talk has added a number of bots that translate text for you, using Google’s Translation technology. To use them, just add the bot to your contact list. The bot names are all name@bot.talk.google.com, with the name being the two letter language code being translated from, the number 2, and the two letter code for the language being translated too. The bot names are, as compiled by Ionut:

bg2en (Bulgarian->English)
de2en, en2de (GermanEnglish)
de2fr, fr2de (GermanFrench)
el2en, en2el (GreekEnglish)
es2en, en2es (SpanishEnglish)
fi2en (Finnish->English)
fr2en, en2fr (FrenchEnglish)
hi2en (Hindi->English)
hr2en (Croatian->English)
it2en, en2it (ItalianEnglish)
ja2en, en2ja (JapaneseEnglish)
ko2en, en2ko (KoreanEnglish)
nl2en, en2nl (DutchEnglish)
ru2en, en2ru (RussianEnglish)
uk2en (Ukrainian->English)
ur2en (Urdu->English)
zh2en, en2zh (ChineseEnglish)

As he points out, the Bulgarian, Finnish, Hindi, Croatian, Ukranian and Urdu languages are not available in the normal Google Translate service, but Google Talk has them anyway.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg