Google Talk is in my view one of the best IM clients. Very fast, simple and functional, it is a great addition to the online environment created by Google with Gmail, Google Docs, etc. .

Besides being a cool and simple IM application, Google Talk can be useful tool for those who need simple translations from different languages. This is done with the help of Translation Bots (they are chat contacts that you add to your contact list): " [from language] 2 [to language] @ bot.talk.google.com ". The supported language pairs are: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en.

An example: English to German translation, add en2de@bot.talk.google.com to your IM contacts and talk to it. Whatever you write to the bot in English will be translated in German.

If you want to try Google Talk you can download it from this link: http://www.google.com/talk/

Read more on this topic on the Google Talk Blog here.

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