Online Translation Services

Companies providing online translation services are able to enhance their credibility by providing a service that is free of error, rapid and effective at communicating the desired message. Typically the turnaround times for these online translation services are rapid and the quality is unparalleled. There are multiple free online translation services available. These companies provide a service that is of desirable quality at the click of a few buttons. Typically a message sender would copy the desired text into an empty box and then select the language to be translated to. The results pop up in a few seconds.

Machine translation can play a big part in this. It can enable your sales and support departments to receive and understand enquiries from customers in other markets. It gives your own staff the ability to access important research, conference presentations and documentation that they would not otherwise be able to understand. It allows user-generated content on your website, such as reviews and comments, to be accessible to a much wider audience. It lets you publish descriptions of your products and services to millions more potential customers.

Getting Started

Alibaba Cloud Machine Translation is available in two editions. The universal edition supports general purpose translation between Chinese and English. The e-commerce edition provides additional in-depth optimization of tens of millions of product titles, product descriptions, search terms and so on. It, too, supports translation between English and Chinese. It also supports translation from English or Chinese into Russian, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

Pricing is kept simple. Your first million characters each month are free of charge. Additional usage can be billed via pay-as-you-go, at USD $33 per million characters. You can save money by paying in advance for a "resource package", which reduces the price by more than 50 percent and is valid for a year from the date of purchase. Resource packages are available in quantities from just 1 million characters, so it makes sense to buy one from the start instead of using pay-as-you-go.

You can try Machine Translation for free, straight from your web browser without any programming. Log into your Alibaba Cloud account and head to https://www.alibabacloud.com/products/machine-translation . Click on the Buy Now button and then on the Activate Service button, then follow the instructions to enable the service on your account. Now just head to the Machine Translation page from the list of products and click on Demo. From here you can choose an edition (general or e-commerce), the source and destination languages, and up to 2,000 characters of text to translate. Just enter or paste the text, click the Translate button and the translated text will appear almost instantly.

Above the Demo link, on the product page in your console, is a Monitoring Statistics link. From here you can keep track of your usage of the service, by number of API calls and the number of characters translated, for any date period.

Summary

The global arena is more like a global village in today’s times. Participants in this bustling world economy need to get be able to effectively communicate with one another in real time. This is somewhat complicated by language barriers. Fortunately, this is no longer the issue with a range of world class online translation services that users can employ. The services that people require need to be reliable, accurate and able to convey the message from the sender to the receiver as accurately and effectively as possible. This is the mainstay of an effective online translation service.