Applications for Machine Translation

Translution provide four types of translation:

• Publishing quality translation(using human translation)
• Next generation translation(for businesses)
• Enhanced machine translation(for individuals)
• "Gisting" machine translation(free - note the quality can be poor)

Publishing quality translation and next generation translation can also be mixed to provide a complete translation solution for many new applications

Below is a table which shows where the various different qualities of translation should be used.

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Publishing quality translation, as supplied by translation agencies, should be used for marketing and legal purposes and specialist translation such as software localization. Publishing quality translation is also used to provide some of the translations used in delivering next generation translation for applications such as multi-lingual websites

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Next generation translation, as provided with Translution Business, Translution Web and Translution API, has many applications such as automatic email translation (including standard multi-lingual responses to customer enquiries), translation of your website and the translation of manuals and documents. Next generation translation can also be useful for customer support and multi-lingual workflow.

And next generation translation can be further improved – to the quality of human translation - by using Translution Review Manager

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Enhanced machine translation, as provided by Translution Pro, can be used for personal communications, such as travel reservations, managing your property abroad or simply communicating with pen pals. It can also be used for research such as reviewing foreign websites and translating foreign documents

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"Gist" machine translation, as provided by Translution’s free online translation service, should only used for casual translation purposes such as small amounts of non technical text translation or website pages. It is unlikely to be much use for serious multi-lingual communication.

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