Automated Translation

Often referred to as "Machine Translation"

Sometimes customers just need a quick answer to a simple question or piece of information, preferably in their language of choice. Often, multilingual information needs to be provided to customers, that is of high quality. Real-time, automated (or machine) translation can be applied directly within your business, or as a key component of knowledge-based translation.

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SDL provides different automated translation solutions to its customers according to their requirements.

For many customers such as Best Western, CNH, HP and Microsoft, it is important for some of their content, that is is of high quality and publishable.
For other customers or for other types of content, giving customers a 'gist' understanding of content is a good solution for information that might not otherwise have been translated.

Solutions for high-quality publishable content

SDL Knowledge-based Translation System™ takes machine translation one step further by ensuring that the output is delivered at the highest possible level of quality, so that you can protect your brand messaging and corporate deliverables.

Output quality is not compromised and translation throughput is significantly increased, with translation costs significantly reduced. High quality is achieved through the combination of automated translation with other translation technologies, as well as with human translation skills.

Solutions for 'gisting' purposes

SDL provides a number of solutions to help people understand information that is written in different languages. Automated translation can help give people an idea of the meaning of words and so can comply with various needs within an organization:

Integration of automated translation within web pages, to provide customers with a 'gist' understanding of content, that might otherwise not be translated. SDL Enterprise Translation Server can be adapted to specific enterprise needs by defining a specific sequence of customized dictionaries. The result is higher quality automated translations
Integration within familiar office tools such as instant messaging, e-mail, Microsoft Word documents, and copy and paste functionality. This can improve internal employee and external customer communications
Freetranslation.com is the world's leading online free translation service, enabling you to type or paste any text and obtain an immediate understandable translation. This can provide immediate value with an understandable translation.

Case Studies

Best Western - SDL helps Best Western Grow bookings through Web Globalization

“The completion of our globalization project is an important step forward in serving the needs of our more than five million international travel guests who stay with us each year. The ability for our customers to learn about properties or book a reservation in their native language is an absolute necessity for our continued global expansion and growth.”

White Papers

Knowledge-based Translation

Large organizations require high-quality, low-cost and fast-turnaround translations of high volumes of content. This paper looks at the requirements for knowledge-based translation and details the solution provided by SDL to address the particular needs of customers today.

High-quality automated translation for global brands

Many of us have our own disaster stories of experiences with automated (or machine) translation. Automated translation is being used today by global brands who do not want to sacrifice quality and consistency in order to improve efficiencies. What they are using is a powerful combination of translation automation technology, automated (or machine) translation and human skills - combining the best of both worlds of people and machines.

Global Communication to the 21st Century Consumer

The pace of technological change in the developed world has increased dramatically in the last quarter of a century. A little over 25 years ago, IBM launched the world's first home computer and since then the computer and related technologies have changed the world and provided an information-rich society. But how do these developments help in a world with new rising economic powers and the need to communicate to consumers in their own language?