{"id":657977,"date":"2013-05-14T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=150672"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:53:06","slug":"google-ghah-bing-now-speaks-klingon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657977","title":{"rendered":"Google ghaH* &#8212; Bing now speaks Klingon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-150681 alignleft\" title=\"Startrek\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Startrek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"265\" \/>Google has added numerous languages to its <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/03\/27\/google-translate-for-android-speaks-your-language-even-while-offline\/\" >Google Translate for Android<\/a> app. A week ago it added 16 more choices, but sadly Klingon <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/05\/09\/google-translate-for-android-2-7-adds-16-more-languages-but-not-klingon-yet\/\" >wasn&#8217;t among them<\/a>. In fact one of our readers,\u00a0blindwanderer, even observed: &#8220;You won&#8217;t ever see Klingon, Klingon as a language is more tightly controlled by its creators than De Beers controls diamonds&#8221;. Which is particularly interesting given what language Bing can now speak.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft service announces that it has partnered with\u00a0Marc Okrand\u00a0and Paramount Pictures to bring Klingon to the translation table. &#8220;Now in a few simple clicks you can translate text from English to Klingon (and vice versa!) Available via the web\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/translator\">here<\/a>\u00a0and also as an update to Bing Translator for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/translator\/2cb7cda1-17d8-df11-a844-00237de2db9e\">Windows Phone 8<\/a>, regardless of whether you\u2019re new to the Star Trek universe or fresh from a convention, we\u2019ve got you covered,&#8221; the search team promises.<\/p>\n<p>This is done, of course, in honor of the new movie &#8212; <em>Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/em> &#8212; which hits theaters on May 16th. Bing wants to help fans celebrate the latest release from director\u00a0J.J. Abrams which even features a cameo from Leonard\u00a0Nimoy. The movie may well be the first of the major summer blockbusters for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Are you going to see the flick? Have you always secretly wanted to learn Klingon? This week you get the chance to accomplish both of these goals.<\/p>\n<p>*Take that Google<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=CYA8fsNggPQ:u79ZoLVtzp8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=CYA8fsNggPQ:u79ZoLVtzp8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/CYA8fsNggPQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added numerous languages to its Google Translate for Android app. A week ago it added 16 more choices, but sadly Klingon wasn&#8217;t among them. In fact one of our readers,\u00a0blindwanderer, even observed: &#8220;You won&#8217;t ever see Klingon, Klingon as a language is more tightly controlled by its creators than De Beers controls diamonds&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}