Machine translation, the new El Dorado for businesses?
When it comes to an online machine translation system, you have the choice… and especially the embarrassment!
Among all the offers available to you on the Internet, here are the most effective.
Google Translate
Among all the free machine translation systems, Google Translate is The Number One from a global perspective.
First on the market with a service that has been online for more than ten years, this internet giant offers instant translation of more than 90 languages! French, English, German, Spanish, this automatic translation engine does not only translate the most common languages. It can translate a text from a source language (Nepalese, Pashto, Telugu…) into a target language (Chewa, Tajik…) even if both are minority languages!
To achieve such performance, Google uses technology based on artificial neural networks: neural machine translation or Google Neural Machine Translation (NMT). But this software is not a gas factory! It is very easy to use and easy to learn intuitively. Especially since it automatically identifies the language to be translated!
This machine translation service offers other interesting options. It is possible to translate all kinds of documents or formats (pdf, word, oral conversation…).
Even if some formulations are still translated verbatim, Google Translate remains one of the most powerful machine translation engines.
DeepL
Deep Learning (or DeepL of its name) is the latest arrival (in 2017) in the court of free online machine translation tools, but not the least!
Even if the possibilities of using DeepL are for the moment limited with few additional applications or options, this machine translation tool remains efficient. And this is only the beginning!
Thanks to artificial intelligence, this system uses a large database (in particular its multilingual translation search engine Linguee) to offer reliable translations in around ten languages.
Systran Premium Translator
Unlike the 2 previous machine translation tools, Systran Premium Translator is not available for free on the net. This complete tool offers specific services:
Only for translation professionals in various fields.
Only in the paid version. The license can be up to $ 1000.
Thanks to an innovative translation engine, this software allows you to:
Work while connected or not.
Realize instant and reliable translation of documents, web pages, e-mails.
Combine different interesting options (management, revision, and exploration of multi-documents, structured translations of files, etc.).
Even if it is a reference in terms of a translation engine, it is not accessible to all budgets ...
Microsoft Translator
The Microsoft translation tool deserves its place among the others. And for good reason! It allows translating sentences, words, web pages in more than 40 languages. Nothing sensational ...
On the other hand, to stand out from its competitors, it has developed a powerful application that is revolutionizing the sector: a direct conversation function. From the site, you can converse with foreign contacts: thanks to a voice recognition system, each spoken or written sentence is translated into the chosen language to make it possible to understand each other without knowing other languages!
Another notable innovation: you can download packs that allow you to translate into any language offline.
The interface of this translation software is very fun and the simple translations are reliable.
Reverso
Reverso is a collaborative translation tool based on the participation of a community of users who spontaneously improve the content.
The design of the site is not particularly attractive or attractive, but the functionalities and the quality of the translations are much more so! Translations from Reverso are globally relevant and help improve your understanding of a text.
Babylon Translator
Babylon Traduction, this free online translation tool has the particularity of offering.
75 applicable languages.
A large database with millions of translated words.
Dictionaries and glossaries. They allow you to translate, search for synonyms or antonyms in the language of your choice.
A thesaurus (index of terms in a sector). It helps you translate specific terms in specialist and technical fields by finding the right word according to the context.
Which machine translation tool to favor?
It is very difficult to distinguish between the different automatic translation systems as their results are equivalent in terms of quality! Of course, Google remains the benchmark with the largest panel of languages ​​available.
This software is the back-up solution for low-tech translation. Above all, they allow you to understand the overall meaning of a text which does not present any particular difficulties.