Google Translate is a great tool for translating content on the fly — and on the cheap. And as Google noted in its blog, Poland’s Ministry of Economy is taking advantage of this translation engine to provide web users with real-time translated content. The Google Translate engine is built right into the header. Here’s a [...]
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July 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Google · Machine Translation
Google, Bing and Babelfish: What’s the best translation engine?
May 17th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Two months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish Ethan Shen has wrapped up the project, soliciting input from more than 1,000 reviewers. He summed up his findings here. Here are the findings that jumped out [...]
Tags: Google · Machine Translation · Microsoft
iPhone app globalization: Ready for take-off
April 30th, 2010 · No Comments
The WSJ has an article about iPhone developers taking their apps global. It’s very early days, but it’s safe to say that localization vendors are drooling over the possibilities. Although many apps aren’t going to present much in the way of translation revenue, the localization engineering work can be quite substantial. I’m currently aware of [...]
Tags: Apple · Facebook · Google · Mobile · iPhone
When machine translation and volunteer translators collide: A YouTube/TED case study
April 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Google recently announced a rather nifty feature in YouTube: Auto-translation of auto-generated video captions. So not only is Google automatically transcribing the text of its videos, it’s also providing translations — via machine translation. Now I just need a “machine reader” so I can process all of this new content — as I’m running out [...]
Tags: Google · Machine Translation · Translation
Is Google the best machine translation engine? It depends…
March 11th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Two weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines — Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Babelfish — by relying on translator reviews. Ethan has provided me with a mid-point summary of results, which I’ve included below. I was surprised to find that Microsoft and Babelfish [...]
Tags: Crowdsourcing · Google · Machine Translation · Microsoft


