Google Translate IM/SMS/Twitter bot in less than 15 lines of code
Tropo recently announced international language/phone number support, along with Twitter support. In less than 15 lines, you can implement your own Google Translate IM/SMS/Twitter bot. This snippet doesn’t take advantage of Tropo’s international text-to-speech support but you should definitely check it out.
Free code! http://gist.github.com/345179
Try it for yourself.
Message format: [from language] [to language] [text string to translate]
- IM: translate@tropo.im
- SMS: (240) 242-7963
- Twitter: Mention your message to @tropotranslate
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