Earlier this week Google Talk announced that translating bots are now available. There are 24 bots available: ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. You can message directly to one of these bots or invite them to a group chat. For example, if you were chatting with your French associate you would invite the en2fr and the fr2en bots to the conversation. As we all know, these services are never perfect but I’m sure the bot speaks better French than I do.