Embedded translation software exclusive

Ten years ago, students with English-Chinese dictionaries were everywhere on university campuses. Today, it is replaced by an electronic dictionary, a laptop, or even a smartphone. This is an embedded translation software application.

Ten years ago, students with English-Chinese dictionaries were everywhere on university campuses. Today, it is replaced by an electronic dictionary, a laptop, or even a smartphone. This is the result of embedded translation software applications. Embedded not only gives translation software more carriers, but also allows relevant manufacturers to find a living space.

Embedded bring-out market

Translation software vendors have a wide range of business directions, including at least the following: intelligent Assistant translation platform, network translation service, telecom multilingual value-added service, organization-oriented information processing system, enterprise translation service, embedded translation software. In the opinion of translation software vendors, embedded is not a preferred mode.

The business model of embedded software is B2B, while the business model of personal translation software is B2C. They are two completely different business models. B2B makes it easier for individual application software vendors to gain benefits. The reason is that B2C business models are adopted. manufacturers need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the market and fight piracy. With the B2B business model, manufacturers do not have to face the majority of end users, so they can take care of a few partners.

Customized software based on operating system

Embedded software is not so easy. Unlike PC-based application software, embedded software needs to consider the categories of operating systems and integration with other application software, therefore, embedded software requires a great deal of customization workload.

In order to achieve application integration on embedded hardware products such as mobile devices, manufacturers need to do a lot of technical research and development work. Unlike Microsoft's operating systems in the PC market, the operating systems of personal digital products such as electronic dictionaries and mobile phones are diverse. Apart from Windows and Linux, Unix, COSIX, Mac OS x, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Windows CE, Mobile, Tablet PC, Hopen, and Symbian platforms all occupy a certain market. Therefore, vendors that provide embedded translation software must complete customized development based on various platforms.

Integration with other intelligent application software is also one of the key points of embedded translation software. The machine translation engine provides translation engine function interfaces for software developers and can be integrated into other application software to enable translation functions for these applications.

Adapt to various chips

From personal-oriented applications to the embedded field, a challenge for manufacturers is how to adapt to various hardware vendors. Personal-oriented application software runs on PCs and generally does not need to be customized for a certain type of PC. Embedded software is faced with various terminal manufacturers and almost needs to develop a corresponding version for each type of terminal.

When developing and designing products, terminal manufacturers focus on the functions supported by the chip. for example, whether the chip supports color screen, multimedia playback, or voice. They started designing chips from the underlying layer and may not even consider the operating system, let alone the application layer software. Machine translation is purely application-layer software. It is not easy for hardware designers to accept software from the application layer. Application software vendors are required to do a lot of marketing work.

When entering the embedded field, application software vendors have to adapt to hardware vendors. During the compilation process, software vendors often find many imperfections in the compilation environment of some hardware manufacturers, and they need to modify the software in the compilation environment to meet the requirements of the underlying chip. This is a test for application software vendors, but cooperation with chip manufacturers can promote joint development and facilitate the prosperity of the industrial chain. It takes years for application software vendors who want to enter the embedded field to constantly communicate with other application technology providers and hardware manufacturers, seek cooperation and innovation, and finally combine a large number of technologies, an integrated software product is intended for users. In this way, on the one hand, it brings more applications to the user and satisfies the user's needs to the maximum extent, thus reflecting the value of intelligent application technology. on the other hand, the integrated products further reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) and are very popular with users.

Therefore, the more concise way is to collect money from PC users from individual application software vendors rather than from the production of electronic dictionaries, PDAs, and mobile phone manufacturers. The success of embedded translation software is a typical case. it not only allows translation software vendors to find a living space, but also explores the path for other application software vendors.

Link: several technical means of machine translation

Machine translation technology

Machine translation is an artificial intelligence technology that uses computer simulation and abstract human translation processes to automatically translate one language into another on a computer. The process of computer translation is to translate the source language into the target language. The specific translation process is to first perform lexical analysis on the source language, then perform syntactic analysis on the basis of the lexical analysis, and then generate the target language based on the result of the syntactic analysis of the source language.

Translation memory technology

Simply put, translation memory stores translated translations in a computer, and stores original and translated translations in translation memory software. When a new translation is performed, the translation memory software can search for and extract the same or similar original and translated results in the translation memory, so that the new translation does not have to be re-performed, however, you can refer to and use previous translation results, which greatly improves the translation efficiency.

TM + MT technology

In recent years, a new trend has emerged, that is, the combination of translation memory technology and machine translation technology. These two technologies can be said to complement each other, because the translation memory cannot translate a language without memory, or the translation cannot be output because it cannot find an original article with a high matching degree, in this case, machine translation can be used for automatic translation. This combination technology can be called TM + MT technology.