Saturday, August 25, 2012

Using Web Translation Software

By Boris Latornikov


So you are searching for a good translator to help you convert some text to allow you to be be able to talk with your chums and clients, present or future.

The price of any such translation depends a lot on the type of document you're looking to translate. Is it for a personal webpage, e-mail or a love letter; or are you looking for a method of being able to interpret a manual for maintaining a plane accurately and efficiently. If it is for something similar to an individual letter or e-mail you probably would prefer to utilize a free translator, such as the kind you'll be able to find online these days. This would allegedly be perfectly adequate for your requirements.

There are some documents that this kind of service would not be acceptable, such as technical, medical and legal documents. In such cases it'd be better to engage the services of human translators. But by doing this you'll be hoping to pay a good amount for the service and they might not even be interested in something less than three to 400 words.

If you're going to employ a free web site based service to finish the task you really need to check how it deals with the translation by trial and error. If you don't speak or understand the language that the document is being interpreted into, the best advice is to be very careful. You've got to check the meaning you wish to give the receiver is the same after going through the process is precisely as it was formerly in English.

The suggested technique to be employed in order to confirm the correct meaning has been kept is to translate the text from English and then, utilizing the same tool, interpret the text back into English. You are now able to determine if the meaning has changed in any way. It might mean that you have got to a little alter the initial text, if that is possible , but it's the only way of really checking that the message you are sending in the interpreted language is the same message you would have sent in English.

A real-world example of this is shown here:

Original English Text:

You're going to need to be very careful if you'd like accurate results from any of the automatic software available.

Ensuing French Text:

Vous devrez faire attention trs si vous voulez des rsultats prcis de du logiciel automatique disponible.

Revised English Text:

You will have to pay attention very if you would like results definite of software automatic available.

With the appearance of the Web we have entered an era where communication is possible even if the reader does not understand your language. There are a number of translation tools available on the net nowadays. Rather than using a human translator, where you can request a quote online for the material you require to be interpreted and receive a price, and even that process is automated, it is less complicated is by using something like the Babelfish Translator software so as to get the crux of what your foreign customer is trying to tell you fast.

By utilizing the free translation software available on the internet in order to have your sites contents interpreted to multiple languages, you can reach a larger audience. This is done quite easily using a tool like the Google translator or Babelfish, however these don't appear as content native to your internet site.

Most of these software plug ins are free to use but with a condition the code is not fiddled with. But do not restrict your site to just one or two languages, go multi language and banish the language obstacle totally. Other commercial translation software companies that provide a free translator service, though at the same time provide a discount or special offer if you purchase a copy of the translation software package from them.

Of course, by the nature of the beast, each system available will be offering something marginally different so you must take your time choosing the tool that fits your wants.

One product relies on the visitor of the site translating the text using their software. All you have got to do is just paste the code from their internet site into yours. All the translation work is completed for you.

Some products depend on you using their tools to create micro-sites for each of your designated languages. The number of languages available from these sites differs from the commonest like German, Spanish, French, and Italian, whilst others offer languages you will not find in many other translation programs.

Some translations sound "robotic" and they are not always precise or place the words in the proper order. If a precise translation is very important to you and you are ready to pay to get it, some corporations offer both a free translator and a professional translation service.




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