Google Translate System

[AbaDe]

Hi , I want to ask , all of you guys as i am having a project (not school project) , project on some deals and i have to prepare documentation in more than 17 Languages which includes (English , Chinese , Hindi , Bengali , French , Japanese , German , Thai , Malayanam , Telegu , Irish , Dutch , Spanish , Swedish , Italian , Russian , Portuguese)

I want to know is using http://translate.google.com/ or Yahoo http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Does it Really Change to a proper sentence , as even if there is a single mistake , it will cost me my job really and i will be in big problem

SO please which one is better , and does they really translate or just gets a fake stuff

Honest Views please :'(

 

[Mr Happy]

Judging by some of the replies and comments around this site their really poor.

The worlds biggest undertaking in translation was by Facebook. It got it's members and users to translate content not a script. In my opinion you'll never get as good a result from a script (even Google) as you will from a fluent speaker.

How much do you need translated. If it's only a page in each language you could probably find people to do it for you easily enough for free. People mightn't mind re-writing a page for you. If it's a lot of content they won't be interested unless their's money involved.

 

[NewEraCracker]

In my opinion both fail.

About google translate I've seem serious errors in translations from english to portuguese and also there are some funny results from spanish to portuguese.

Human translation is better.

 

[WebKobra]

They both suck but google is the best. It also has an api for website development.

 

[bxflow]

They both suck, but if gives you an idea of what something else means, if you want a perfect translation might as well pay someone for a PROFESSIONAL TRANLASTION here >> http://www.freetranslation.com/

 

[Amz]

If your job is at stake I would recommend you to stay away from automatic translators. Better go for human translation. The text translated by google and yahoo is funny most of the times (not a good reason to lose your job).

 

[Skray]

i use google translator

 

[m107]

Google is the best one, they update it day by day.

 

[Hyper Freak]

If you dont know the language you are going to translate to then dont use them.They can make mustakes, yes they can help you with translation but you need to fix/corect the text after them.They are not perfect

 

[Daniel]

Google Translate is getting better everyday.

 

[romefs]

Use human translators.
Some sentences translated by Google can be damn ridiculous at times...

 

[harsh73]

google translate is best