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What services have you used for translation? I need to translate in several languages and I'm wondering what platforms people used and recommend.

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  • Elithenia
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    Depends, are you looking for a perfect translation? Or just something to get you by?
    Is it for work, or personal?

    There is nothing that beats getting a professional interpreter/translator to get proper translations. And it is probably worth if you are doing it for work....
    If you are just doing it for personal reasons, or travelling etc, you can use google translate.

    Maybe you can ask friends and people you know speaking the languages to translate some parts? 
    It is very situational and depends on what you need the translation for.
  • Stinger88
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    Just to add. If there is anything legal involved. T&C's etc. Get a fully certified "legal" translator. A word out of place could be costly.

    I doubt this is an issue for you (I'm assuming this is game related). But if there is anything medical involved in translation. Get a proper translator.
  • Prophet
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    Prophet polycounter lvl 11
    Sorry for the late reply, but eventually I ended up using mytranslation site. I could confirm some translations with native speakers and they said they were quite good. So, if anyone is interested, this might be a solution. 
  • Mant1k0re
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    Mant1k0re polycounter lvl 8
    Prophet said:
    Sorry for the late reply, but eventually I ended up using mytranslation site. I could confirm some translations with native speakers and they said they were quite good. So, if anyone is interested, this might be a solution. 
    *sigh

    If this was your audit, I'm scared when I think of the final result.

    You didn't say what you wanted translated but I assume it's games. Game localization has specific needs and requirement that you average sweatshop localization factory will never get right >.>

    Next time try a vendor that specializes in games.

    http://www.keywordsstudios.com/

    This is the biggest multilingual vendor specializing in games in the world, for instance. Surest best if you're after quality.
  • Prophet
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    Mant1k0re said:
    Prophet said:
    Sorry for the late reply, but eventually I ended up using mytranslation site. I could confirm some translations with native speakers and they said they were quite good. So, if anyone is interested, this might be a solution. 
    *sigh

    If this was your audit, I'm scared when I think of the final result.

    You didn't say what you wanted translated but I assume it's games. Game localization has specific needs and requirement that you average sweatshop localization factory will never get right >.>

    Next time try a vendor that specializes in games.

    http://www.keywordsstudios.com/

    This is the biggest multilingual vendor specializing in games in the world, for instance. Surest best if you're after quality.
    I checked online reviews, this was the one with best reviews. And after the final result confirmed with native speakers.

    No, in this case, it wasn't for games, it was a web page that needed translation. Thank you for the link, though. Might be helpful in the future. :)
  • slipsius
    Wait, were you looking to get things localized, or were you just trying to translate it to read it on your own? Cause if you use google chrome, you can get pages translated just by right clicking on it...
  • Prophet
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    Maybe I wasn't clear in the first post. :) I was developing a new page for a software website, that needed translation for several languages. So, I went to search for services that do this kind of job and according to my search and reviews, the best for me was that mytranslation.com.
  • Mant1k0re
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    Right, that's a much more general need that many vendors will cover correctly. Localizing games properly, on the other hand,  in a way that does justice to the product takes specialists :)
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