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Google translate was only used by me to try to check what the professional translators had done, and see whether the phrasing is what I expect.
by alkonaut 4y ago
Google translate was only used by me to try to check what the professional translators had done, and see whether the phrasing is what I expect.
- carlosjobim 4y agoGoogle Translate is unreliable for that use. You'll need another professional translator to check that with certainty. DeepL is much better than Google translate, and also free.
- alkonaut 4y agoI know. So it's just a creeping suspicion. But the "need a different translator" still doesn't help. Because of the same reason the first one didn't help. Unless the person knows the semantics of the program, and not just the domain and the languages involved, we can't be sure they are making the right translation. It doesn't matter how many translators you throw at it (or how many tools). The closest thing would be to simply sit down with translators+developers and go through it. But that's also prohibitively expensive for specialist software (I.e. software where the number of languages times the number of translated texts is easily 100x the total number of users).