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    Posts Tagged ‘Machine Translation’

    Google Translate Tips

    Saturday, November 19th, 2011

    As a translation and interpreting company, we are always advocates of using professional linguists for business documents. However, we also know that the multitude of machine translation tools available on the internet or mobile phones are extremely useful for getting information translated into other languages quickly and on the fly. We aren’t recommending these tools for, say, translating your website or marketing collateral, but they are useful when traveling, browsing the web, etc. Recently, we came across a ‘how to’ post at CNET, “Seven smart Google Translate Tricks,” which offers great Google Translate tricks that are easy to deploy. We’re sharing it with our readers because there were a couple of tricks even we hadn’t tried.

    If you are looking for professional business translations, however, stop on over to our website, GlobalLanguages.com.

    Man vs. Machine: Translation makes headlines in NYT & CNN

    Thursday, October 8th, 2009

    Facebook, which is available in 65 languages, is now offering its collaboration translation tools to others. Websites or apps that uses Facebook Connect can now use the Facebook Platform to get help translating their sites/apps into any language that Facebook Translations supports. In the September 20, 2009 article in The New York Times, “Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites,” columnist Brad Stone interviewed Ethan Beard, the head of platform at Facebook. Beard addressed the human element of translation and the importance of the understanding of cultural values and idioms. Stone commented that “translation done by people is significantly better than what you would get otherwise.” In other words, using humans as translators is more affective and accurate than translating your website or documents via Machine Translation (MT) services.

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