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I know there is Google Translate, which some people say is a bit "mechanical" in its translation though it is great.

Can we list the translation web services out there and any pros and cons?

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Google provides a language API to translate text/block of texts.

Using it, you may translate as well as transliterate (in case of Hindi and alike)

With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. In addition, you can enable transliteration on any textfield or textarea in your web page. For example, if you were transliterating to Hindi, this API will allow users to phonetically spell out Hindi words using English and have them appear in the Hindi script.

Download Link: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/

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Couple of others:

  • Microsoft has a machine translation tool called [Bing Translate][1] . This too has an 'auto-detect' for languages but doesn't support all the languages that Google does.
  • [BabelFish][2] was popular before Google Translate came along
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