We will continue working on improving the system, but we hope meanwhile that in spite of the experimental nature – it will be of use in the relief efforts.' I am glad to announce that an experimental Haitian Creole MT system is now publicly available via several services and APIs powered by Microsoft Translator technologies.

Responding to community requests for a machine translation (MT) system to translate between English and Haitian Creole, our team has been hard at work over the last few days. 'In the current crisis in Haiti there are a number of initiatives to rapidly build software to assist in humanitarian aid. It's an early release labeled as 'alpha', so the translation quality isn't very high.Ī week ago, Microsoft Translator added support for Haitian Creole. 'Haitian Creole language, often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about eight million people, which is about 80% of the entire population, and via emigration, by about one million speakers residing in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Belize, Puerto Rico, and United States,' mentions Wikipedia. All our FRENCH speaking government officials in Haiti who forgot their KREYOL will finally pick up a few words.Google's translation service added support for Haitian Creole, the most popular language in Haiti. Well, now it is as simple as going to, write what you want to say, and select 'Haitian Creole'

There are many American citizens and others from around the world who have adopted children in Haiti, or are in the process of adopting.īelieve me, if you are Haitian, if you are fluent in Haitian Creole, I don't think you will appreciate a simple 'Mwen Renmen-w' (I love you) or 'Bondye beni-w' (God bless you) as much as a foreign parent, in the process of adopting a child in Haiti, who is trying to put those words on a birthday card to send to that child in Haiti. Not only are there tens of thousands of foreign workers and missionaries in Haiti who are trying very hard to say a few Haitian Creole words but. She made me realize something that, up until she contacted me, I never even thought about. Not long ago, I got an email from one of my readers asking me to help her translate a couple of sentences to from English to Haitian Creole. What this means to Non-Haitians who want to learn Creole: No.ġ0 days after the Haiti earthquake, Microsoft announced that they were taking a number of initiatives to make sure that Haitian Creole support is available in Bing Translator and other Microsoft Translator powered services.ĭepi Frevrye wi, mezanmi, Google ap jere nou! Google is not the only one providing translation service in Haitian Creole. Creole, Not French, Is Haiti's Official Language.Remember back in May 2007, I told you about the Google Haitian Creole translation project. I know many people in my mailing list who are NOT Haitian and who will be very happy to hear this.

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