The Battle of Translator vs. AI How Does Honyaku Plus Stack Up? The consultant looked concerned. “Is Google Translate a threat to Honyaku Plus?” I laughed out loud. I couldn’t help it. “Have you ever used Google Translate?” I asked. It was 2012. We were looking over Honyaku Plus’s SWOT analysis. Google Translate had been …
The ＃1 way to tell a good translation To tell a good translation from a bad one, ask yourself this: Does it read naturally? The road to translation hell is paved with slavish adherence to the source text Some translators follow a word-for-word approach in which every word of the original text has a corresponding …
To say “no two translations are alike” is an exaggeration, but this is not too far from the truth.
The Client’s Translation Dilemma The client’s translation dilemma is this: clients generally do not need translation, until they need translation, and then they really need translation, like, NOW. If the client has never used translation services before, they will not know which type of service they need or where to get it. They will be …
The road to translation hell is paved with slavish adherence to the source text.
