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Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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post #19

There is https://locize.com - bridging the gap between development and translation. Based on customer feedback ( https://locize.com/customers.html ) for sure worth a try (even more having a 14d free - with zero obligations.

Have used locize before and was impressed by the speed and ease of use. The most difficult part of translation is getting the context right - this is where upwork etc didn't cut it for us.

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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Try out Smartling's self service platform. You get access to professional human translation as well as translation management tools, translation memory, visual context etc. You get a quote and estimate prior to submitting jobs.

https://www.smartling.com/pricing/

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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Try out Smartling's self service platform. You get access to professional human translation as well as translation management tools, translation memory, visual context etc. You get a quote and estimate prior to submitting jobs. https://www.smartling.com/pricing/

We also use smartling. Does pretty well for us and has a simple API that we have gulp and webpack plugins for.

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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Contracted local university CS / Math students from China. Done on an exchange basis where I helped with English and tech issues. They helped proofread machine translations. Made some excellent friends. And now I have an invitation to visit Henan Province as well ;) What I am really interested in investigating is what is the minimal subset of words or concepts that makes a website or service useful. Is it 10,000? Or…

I've heard the most common 2000 words in languages tend to make up the bulk of written, and spoken communication. Don't quote me on it though, since I don't have any real sources on this.

It reminds me of an editor that was submitted once in Show HN, that only lets you type the most common 1000 words[1].

[1] https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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Remember the triad: time, cost, quality - pick two.

Selecting the right service/agency for translation is primarily related to what content (and what degree of accuracy) you need. Translating content for a website advertising a medical device is very different than translating social media content.

For content that HAS to be correct, I've used www.languagescientific.com

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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post #9

DeepL ( https://www.deepl.com/ ) is a pretty good translator. It's not perfect, but it's much better than google translator.

I can also recommend it. It beats most of the existing translation services and we're happy with it at STOMT

Re: Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?

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post #9

DeepL ( https://www.deepl.com/ ) is a pretty good translator. It's not perfect, but it's much better than google translator.

I don't see pricing or an API from DeepL that could be classified as a 'service'. Am I missing it?

No monetization from the team on this particular product (yet). But, there are unofficial API frameworks (Search NPM for example) & they haven't really implemented any aggressive rate-limiting. Normal usage should be fine.
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