GoogleTalk + Translation = Way Cool

From Alexey Gavrilov at MetaLink:

Released yesterday they allow you to translate from and to dozen of languages using any XMPP client (including GTalk of course).

Add [src language]2[dest language]@bot.talk.google.com

to your GTalk contacts and bingo — you’ve got your personal machine interpreter. For example en2zh@bot.talk.google.com will translate from English to Chinese.

The quality of translation looks pretty good in simple tests (I tried English to Deutsch and English to 中文).

The following language pairs are supported:
ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, hr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, uk2en, ur2en, zh2en.