Comments on: Dipping our toes in

By: toggletext

toggletext — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:48:47 +0000

Thanks a lot for the nice words, Andrew!

I don’t know if we will work on versions for other platforms. It took us quite a while to get the iPhone one into existence

“Can’t quite believe that we get all this for free.” — neither can we, Andrew ;)

cheers,
Brianna

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:11:05 +0000

This is such a great tool. I use it for work and ‘cross-cultural sweetheart’ communications. I am trying to learn bahasa as well so this has been a real boon.

I also make use of the site via my internet phone when on my travels and most of the time it works in both directions. Gets a bit stuck on idioms sometimes but so do I :-)

If I have some expression that is completely new to me I translate to bahasa and then back again (sometimes more than once) to get a sense of how it translates. This allows me to refine what I am writing to get closer to my desired meaning. So far nobody has questioned my use of the language and has understood what I am trying to say.

I would like to see a Windows Mobile version as the interface when using my phone is not so convenient.

The Kamusku app looks great, when can we non-apple mortals get the same sort of facility?

Can’t quite believe that we get all this for free.

Thanks

By: Brianna

Brianna — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:37:40 +0000

J Smith, I’m not sure if it’s “allowed” to, but it’s probably not “supposed” to :)

If we can’t reproduce the problem it’s really hard for us to fix it. So if you notice any weird translations like this, let us know the exact words you put in, and we can try and reproduce it and fix it.

By: J.Smith

J.Smith — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:11:14 +0000

yes i know, i was quite confused, but once i tried to translate a ‘experience’ but it replied with ‘i dont know’ is it allowed to do that??

By: Brianna

Brianna — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:31:26 +0000

Hm, that’s very strange, J Smith! I just now translated “choose” and it came back with “pilih”, so I’m not sure how your friend managed to get such a strange translation…

By: J. Smith

J. Smith — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:12:04 +0000

I find that toggletext is very useful,
but a friend of mine has reported that instead of translating the word, it replied with a sentence.

whats with thaaaaaaat?

she went to translate ‘choose’ into indonesian and instead of replying with ‘pilih’ it replied “i want have a conversation with you one day” (in indonesian).

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:59:31 +0000

I’ve been using Toggletext for nearly two years to translate some of my “cross-cultural sweetheart’s” texts and emails.

Sometimes I translate my replies before sending them to her as she has infrequent internet access.

About a year ago Toggletext had some serious bandwidth and server issues. But since your website overhall the reliability has been absolutely excellent, and all this is free!

I really am extremely grateful for this service it’s a real lifeline.

I would like to know how to feedback phrases that never quite get translated effectively (possessive pronowns spring to mind) and I’m also a little unsure about how well tenses are translated. Since there’s the world of differnce between “went to the beach” and “will go to the beach”, I would like to have more confidence in those translations.

I also think it would be good to have a “Formal/Informal” style switch, and I’d also like to whether the “SMS” switch really does anything.

Please keep up the good work, and I wish you all the best for the commercial service you have recently launched.

Thanks again!

By: ryan ahmad

ryan ahmad — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:22:33 +0000

i love toggletext,,,
is Very friendly and informatif.