Feb 23, 2011

18 Human Translation Plugins available from Gengo’s API Lab

Platforms like WordPress, Rails, Drupal and Joomla now have access to human translation

Tokyo,Japan | Published on: February 23, 2011

Today Gengo announced a suite of 18 new plug-ins that make human translation available at the touch of a button from within WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Firefox, and a host of other massively popular platforms. These plug-ins were developed in just 10 weeks as part of the tech startup’s “API Lab” initiative, and are available for free download from Gengo’s website. Coming from four separate continents, the independent developers behind each plug-in were rewarded with cash prizes for their unique efforts.

The Gengo Human Translation API

Gengo provides an efficient, low-cost solution for quality translation at scale, with a large and growing qualified translator pool that has now reached over 1,700 members. The Gengo API was launched in April of 2010 to enable streamlined access to this pool of translators, allowing third-party platforms to seamlessly plug-in to Gengo, and end users to order human translations from potentially anywhere content is created.

The Lab Opens

The API Lab launched last December, in an ambitious initiative aimed at making integration of Gengo’s human translation platform into third-party services a quick and seamless experience. Developers were offered cash rewards of as much as $1400 per plug-in, a chance to connect with other “scientists” in the API Lab, while also showing off their programming skills to a wider audience. All plug-ins created through the API Lab program are open-source and free for download, so new developers can build and improve upon them.

As Gengo CEO Robert Laing explains “The API Lab has been a great boost to the international community of developers working with our service. The winners have provided a huge amount of valuable, working code that can be built upon by developers and used by content creators.”

$20,000 in Rewards Still Available

Gengo’s CTO, Matt Romaine, emphasizes that the API Lab is still “open for tinkering.” Not only are developers still free to create translation plug-ins from a list of over 20 platforms still eligible for rewards, they can also still suggest additional platforms. Already, Gengo has added 5 platforms based on suggestions from the developer community.

Featured Plugins:

WordPress, Gonzalo Huerta

This plug-in allows bloggers to order and receive translations from within the popular blogging platform’s interface, and seamlessly connect to readers around the world. Gonzalo Huerta is a Chilean Developer based in Korea.

Firefox, Tito Bouzout

This handy browser extension for Firefox allows web surfers to highlight online content written in foreign languages, right-click, and order translations from myGengo. Japanese friends of the myGengo team are already using the extension to read popular tech blogs. Tito Bouzout is a freelance developer based in Uruguay.

Ruby on Rails, Vladimir Penkin

This plug-in includes a fully-functional framework that allows users to add a human translation feature to any website built through Rails. It includes generated views, controllers and models for managing translations. Vladimir Penkin is based in Moscow.

A full list of plugins and their winners is now available at: /api/lab/winners/

Developers can view the remaining plugins available for prizes at: /api/lab/