LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SERVICES

No, it’s not copy-and-pasting text into a website translation tool.

We now offer neural machine translation to bring more cost efficiency and scalability to your translation projects.

Machine translation certainly has its advantages, but whether it’s the “best” option depends on various factors and context. Here are some reasons why machine translation can be advantageous:

• Speed: Machine translation can quickly translate large volumes of text in a matter of seconds or minutes, making it ideal for tasks requiring rapid translation turnaround.
• Cost-Effectiveness: Machine translation is often more cost-effective than human translation, especially for large-scale projects where human labor costs would be prohibitively high.
• Consistency: Machine translation produces consistent translations, ensuring that terminology and style remain uniform throughout a document or project.
• Availability: Machine translation tools are readily available online and can be accessed anytime, anywhere, making them convenient for users needing quick translations.
• Basic Understanding: Machine translation can provide a basic understanding of the content, allowing users to grasp the main ideas and concepts of a text written in a foreign language.

However, it’s important to note that machine translation also has limitations:

• Accuracy: Machine translation may produce inaccurate or nonsensical translations, especially for complex or nuanced content. It often struggles with idiomatic expressions, cultural references, and context-dependent language.
• Lack of Contextual Understanding: Machine translation cannot understand context, leading to errors in translation that result from ambiguity or multiple possible interpretations.
• Quality Variability: The quality of machine translation can vary widely depending on the language pair, the complexity of the text, and the specific machine translation system used.
• Inability to Capture Nuance: Machine translation often fails to capture the subtleties, nuances, and tone of the original text, leading to translations that may lack the richness and depth of human translation.
• Privacy Concerns: Using machine translation services may raise privacy concerns, especially when sensitive or confidential information is involved, as the service provider may process and store the text.

It’s important to remember that the neural machine translation process imitates the neural pathways in the human brain to produce highly fluent translations in a fraction of the time a human translator would need. However, it’s a joint effort—a highly skilled human editor checks all our translations produced by our neural machine translation to ensure quality before delivery.

Machine translation may or may not be suited to your translation project. Talk to our project manager to learn more and discuss whether this option would be a good fit.