Interlecta text translator
A Facebook application which translates into several languages. As a Facebook user (limited, I must say) I have just added this application to test its efficiency level. I started looking for such an application as I came across a report on the BBC website about the Spanish version of Facebook. According to official sources 1,500 spanish-speaking Facebook users have translated the site in less than four weeks with the help of a built-in application. Quite an achievement. I was wondering if that application is Interlecta text translator. It seems that in a few days’ time users accessing Facebook from spanish-speaking regions will automatically see the Spanish version. The same will follow for French and German.
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I received an offer to help translate Facebook into Spanish. Anyone would think the rates they offered were just an error–they wanted to pay 0,007 euros per source word!! I sent an offer with my minimum rates, but were much higher, of course, and they didn’t even send a reply.
As a Facebook user, recently I received a message telling that the site was now available in Spanish, too. Reading just that message was enough. Even the grammar was all wrong!
There is nothing positive in the fact that the big companies that have the money to hire professional translators are the ones that seldom do. I’m sorry if I can’t be so happy as you are. Having new tools should help improve communication, but when wrongly used they only help to spread incoherent texts that are an insult to non-english speakers.
Hi Maria,
I answered your post and then thought of changing my response. I agree with you that it’s very unfair not to pay the professional translators and get poor quality translation done by native speakers. But I did not rejoice about it. I was merely interested in the mechanism of the text translator which I took for a system of machine translation. For that matter, I was just curious about the multiple versions of such a website as once I was involved in translating a part of an international website project.
Is there any way we can download Interlecta Tex Translation to our tool bar? Thanks!
Sorry,as far I know it’s only possible to use the translator within facebook.I have not really checked out the system and unaware about the translation standards.