Howtosayin is a web site which lets you translate your words or sentences into 23 languages. It’s a simple but very useful site. After making some improvements, howtosayin may become a powerful web translator application.

The real power of howtosayin is, using Google AJAX Language API as the translationengine. This case shows me the power of open source, again.

What is the Google AJAX Language API?

With the AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. In addition, you can enable transliteration on any textfield or textarea in your web page. For example if you were transliterating to Hindi, this API will allow users to phonetically spell out Hindi words using English and have them appear in the Hindi script.

The language API is designed to be simple and easy to use to translate and detect languages on the fly when offline translations are not available. We plan on adding more exciting capabilities to the AJAX Language API in the future, so stay tuned.’ from Google AJAX Language API page .

Google helps talented developers to use its API’s for free; and if you have programming and design skills or a you have a team with these skills you can develop strong web applications without trying to build a core engine…