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Google recently hiked enterprise license fees for access to translation services pretty substantially. I wonder if we'll see similar competitive momentum in th
by nugget 8y ago
Google recently hiked enterprise license fees for access to translation services pretty substantially. I wonder if we'll see similar competitive momentum in that market.
- ucaetano 8y agoMost likely, yes. But translation services are far easier to enter than mapping.
- Scene_Cast2 8y agoBoth are hard and are open problems.
- ucaetano 8y agoSure, but very different. Mapping requires real-world operations, such as driving cars and taking pictures around the entire world, and doing it again and again. This is far more cost-intensive, both in upfront as in maintenance, than the translation problem. Software is easy. The real world is hard.
- detuur 8y agoWhich is exactly the point. Translation is a real-world problem. You need to actively go into the real world, find problem cases, make your translation software translate it, make your own translation, compare the translations, teach your software to translate it correctly, and hope that your approach is good enough. The real-world constraint of translation software is building a sizeable quality corpus of real-world text with real-world living human translators. We're lucky that the EU employs literally thousands of translators to publish identical texts across languages (for free!!), which has helped make European languages pretty much a solved problem in machine translation. But anything non-european is still hopelessly incomprehensible, simply because we don't have enough real-world data.
- webreac 8y agoSince they are using this strategy, translation of idioms is terrible. I have switched translate.
- logicallee 8y agoTo what?
- BookmarkSaver 8y agoFar easier to enter, because so far there isn't a single one that is more than vaguely useful. As far as I'm aware, there isn't really much business at all for translation because at the end of the day, if you want it done anywhere close to correctly, you have to hire someone that actually knows both languages.