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Google Translate adds easter egg that recognizes the beatboxing hack
- tdoggette 16y agoThe conditions are German language and no consonants.
- yread 16y agoIs it really an easter egg? To me it seems more like they "fixed" it and broke the beatboxing trick in the process. You can still add dummy vowels to the word to make it sound beatboxy
- ma2rten 16y agoYou missed the easter egg. Look harder.
- nixy 16y agoI don't see any "Beatbox" button, it says "Listen".
- ars 16y agoOn the left, under the text input box. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/4jd5y.png http://i.imgur.com/4jd5y.png
- mooism2 16y agoThe "beatbox" link is absent for me, and the "listen" link is present but doesn't work for me. shrug
- anonymoushn 16y agoThe "Beatbox" button is under the untranslated text (that is supposedly in German). It's easier to see if you set it to translate German -> German, because then both listen buttons will become beatbox buttons.
- gregschlom 16y agoIt seems that the "Beatbox" button is created after the page load, probably by some Ajax call. That may explain why some people are not seeing it.
- Swizec 16y agoOk so that's weird. I was just showing this to my sister earlier today and noticed that there was no Listen, just Beatbox. Naturally I was delighted that they recognised the meme ... but, talk about a race condition. I thought this was nothing new and here were are, a 48 minute old HN submission whereas I was showing my sister probably 50 minutes ago. Slightly related, the first hit on google for "google beatbox" is translate.google.com
- mauriciob 16y agoProbably because the Google Crawler registered all "google beatbox" links leading to that page. People have used this feature before to "fake" results, although this time it is clearly legit. It's a shame Google doesn't register hash (#) locations.
- mtrimpe 16y agoDon't worry; it's been there for a few days already ...
- jcitme 16y agomore than a week, actually...
- rradu 16y agoThe "listen" button now just reads the letters, which is still pretty funny.
- sovok 16y agoI didn't see the Beatbox button first and thought she now sings the letters, like http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pvpvpvpvpvpvpvv%0A http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pvpvpvpvpvpvpvv%0A Other languages yield interesting sounds too http://translate.google.com/#de|es|pvpvpvpvbvbvbvbvpvpvpvpvatatatat%2C%20pvpvpvpvbvbvbvbvpvpvpvpvudududud http://translate.google.com/#de|es|pvpvpvpvbvbvbvbvpvpvpvpva...
- bl4k 16y agoNote: IF you have flash disabled, you will not see it, since the 'listen' feature is a flash applet The easter egg is a simple 'beat box' icon below the original text much like the 'listen' icon under the translated text. Edit: somebody in the thread uploaded a screenshot, thx: http://i.imgur.com/4jd5y.png http://i.imgur.com/4jd5y.png
- asmosoinio 16y agoIf you add a real word in German after the beatbox text, it will read out the individual letters instead, no beatboxing. Example: http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20kz%20zk%20pv%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20zk%20pzk%20pzk%20pvzkpkzvpvzk%20kkkkkk%20bsch%0AAchtung http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20...
- magamiako 16y agoI'll be honest, this is part of the reason that people love Google so much. They're willing to have a little bit of fun with their applications, such as with the Maps and "Swimming" or "Kayaking" across the oceans.
- jordan0day 16y agoI'm not familiar with whatever the original "beatboxing hack" was. Could someone please provide a little bit of background?
- Huppie 16y agoMake it translate from german to german and press the 'listen' button. Here's the original 'Google Beatbox' topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356
- whager 16y agoThe button is there, but it doesn't work on Linux(Ubuntu 10.04 with Chromium). The regular listen button does work.
- VMG 16y agoworks on arch linux with chromium 8.0.552.237
- train_robber 16y agoWorked on both Chromium 8.0.552 and Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04. Flash issues probably?
- tjic 16y agoHa! If you edit the beatbox text, Google helpfully asks "did you mean ... ?" and suggests the original text.
- beaumartinez 16y agoAs some of the comments hint, the link is broken (de|en should be de|de); it translates from German to English. (The beatboxing "hack" only works with German-to-German translation.)
- train_robber 16y agoIt did work for me using de|en
- pygy_ 16y agoIf you switch the languages, you get an hillarious example of probabilistic spelling suggestion gone too far: http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20kz%20zk%20pv%20pv%20pv%20zk%20pv%20zk%20zk%20pzk%20pzk%20pvzkpkzvpvzk%20kkkkkk%20bsch%0A%0A http://translate.google.com/#de|en|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20... http://i.imgur.com/64eXg.png http://i.imgur.com/64eXg.png <== What I saw.
- samic 16y agoThe thing that really surprised me is that at first someone made a beatbox with MISUSING Google Translate! but now google instead of (for example) banning that misusing, has created a tool to help you enjoy Google Translate in any way you like! even if it's not it's original purpose!!