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App Spotlight: Sendboo translates multi-lingual messages on the fly
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Posted 18 February 2013 - 10:15 PM
(Disclaimer: I'm a mild-mannered translator by day. I may be biased, but I also use MT and other Computer-Aided Translation tools every day and know MT's limitations intimately.)
Machine Translation technology is still in its infancy, so I'd be *very* wary of using this for business-critical communications. It's okay for simple pleasantries and the like, but if you're using a lot of obscure industry-specific terminology and idioms, it's worth remembering that very few MT systems are aware of these.
And, of course, if you struggle to write well even in your own language, MT will fail hard and hilariously.
Machine Translation technology is still in its infancy, so I'd be *very* wary of using this for business-critical communications. It's okay for simple pleasantries and the like, but if you're using a lot of obscure industry-specific terminology and idioms, it's worth remembering that very few MT systems are aware of these.
And, of course, if you struggle to write well even in your own language, MT will fail hard and hilariously.
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