Babbler

Welcome to Babbler.

This page, like Babbler, is a work in progress. It will be updated regularly.

[12:20am may 28, 2007] pipes are slow, which means babbler coverage is spotty. sorry for the inconvenience.

You can pick up Babbler at Phreak Isle.

Babbler is a mashup between Second Life and Yahoo! Pipes. It allows your chatting to be translated. Pirate translation is via http://pirate.monkeyness.com/.

It translates you to a language of your choice, as well as others people to your language. Currently supports the following in one way or another: “French”,”German”, “Spanish”, “English”, “Italian”, “Portuguese”, “Japanese”, “Chinese”,”Dutch”

Depending on load, it sometimes may hiccup. It’s generally been reliable these days.

TODO - Some weirdness with japanese and chinese. Not sure if its local font issue or what.

About the look: I’m open to anyone who would like to contribute a skin for babbler. I know this one ain’t winning any design awards. One goal to keep in mind with any design you submit is it has to accessible to new users. That’s my goal, but not sure how successful I’ve been. Hope the videos helps.

Watch these videos to get an idea of how it works.

Babbler3 - Start/How to translate yourself on Vimeo

Babbler3 - How to translate others. on Vimeo

How to use

Wear it. Should be a HUD point. If you don’t know what this means, then just drag it from your inventory to the ground, and follow he directions.

You will be prompted to Pick the language YOU speak. This sets Babbler to your language.

TO TRANSLATE YOURSELF This button turns Babbler ON/OFF. When you turn it on, you will be asked what language you want to be translated to.

TO TRANSLATE OTHERS
1
This button picks the person you want to translate. You will be asked to pick the language they are speaking. To remove someone from the list, just push this button again, and pick their name again. You must be within 50 meters of them. The machine can hold about 30 names, then it removes the oldest one.

2
This button turns translate others On and Off. When you turn it on, it will begin translating others you picked in step 1.

You can pass people a copy using the Gift button when you are in their area.

Please keep all feedback and suggestions
coming. Always need volunteers to do more community work, like writing better instructions, translating current ones, helping people use it in general.

yahoo!: thanks for pipes, and to edward ho for trying to help solve some technical issues.
google: Please don’t send your monkey-ninja-lawyers after me. A polite letter is all it would take.
@fong: Thanks fot all the hosting!

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