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

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Post by futhey »

slig wrote: post #18

If you're considering fiverr, check out /r/slavelabour and /r/jobbit .

Fiverr folks are just copy pasting Google translate and doing slight edits. Except some rare exceptions (Mandarin). Quality control is a hard problem to solve (worked on a startup in this space), and the only really good solution is to pay a reputable translator / agency > 12¢ per word.

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

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Post by futhey »

jcasman wrote: post #6

I worked as a (very) part-time translator (Japanese to English) for a company called Gengo. It's a "shared economy" structure, with any army of freelancers doing the work. Good at smaller, quick translations. To be clear, I have no experience buying their service, and I haven't done any work with them for several years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gengo

Have used Gengo extensively, it's most likely your best option.

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

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Post by mdemare »

CTO of tolq.com here. We support a variety of formats, including json, yaml, xlsx, and various xml formats, and we have a fully automated api that will ping you when our translators are done. Translation memory support is built-in - we'll only translate the diff.

We also have github support. Check in a yaml file in github, and we'll automatically translate the changes in the target languages you choose. When we're done, we create a pull request.

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

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Post by Jun8 »

indescions_2017 wrote: post #15

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…

This is an excellent idea. It’s definitely not 10k, my estimate would be <500. This could be a great open source project, if one does not exist already.

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

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Post by Klonoar »

https://www.gengo.com/ is my favorite, but I'm biased because I worked there many lifetimes ago. I've used them on some projects since leaving and I haven't seen a large quality dip or anything, so I feel comfortable recommending them. Their API works well for automating a lot of the stuff too.

Also, if you ever meet the CEO, ask him about Gengo-Chan. :)

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

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Post by nso »

mdemare wrote: post #33

CTO of tolq.com here. We support a variety of formats, including json, yaml, xlsx, and various xml formats, and we have a fully automated api that will ping you when our translators are done. Translation memory support is built-in - we'll only translate the diff. We also have github support. Check in a yaml file in github, and we'll automatically translate the changes in the target languages you choose. When we're do…

What are your prices? Not interested in starting a whole quote scenario, just want to know the ball park.
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