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Good point, we are in the process of updating our homepage. Things have been moving so fast it is hard to keep up. In any case we currently offer translations in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and Turkish. More languages to come soon.

Thanks, I reached out through linked. I am looking forward to talking to you about your experience in crowdlation.

Thanks for the comment, we love our customers and we hope we continue to bring value for you and your customers.

Thank you for your comment, very insightful concerns and advice. We would love to chat with you about your experience with crowd translation, it would be really helpful. Would it be possible to get in touch?

One thing that we could be useful for is to actually help your reviewers to communicate with the partner, that is to help in translating the communication itself.

In any case, Kiva is an amazing organization, so obviously we would love to find out how we can help in any way.

I will look at it. Thanks for the info.

Hi, that is good point. It is something we are working hard on. I think that starting with machine translation helps with maintaining coherence in style. In way it is as if the first translator (the machine) translated the whole document. The rest can be tackled with a lot of preprocessing and post-processing. That being said, our method is not suited for really long forms, such as 25 page documents or novels. Anything that requires creative translation would probably need a professional translation dedicated on the project. I would be interested in talking to you about your idea for Japanese. Anything I can do to help let me know.

There is already a way to send comments to the translator, Thank you for your comment. When you send the message you can define the tone and give specific instructions. We also have an beta version of the android app and are almost ready to launch iphone. Also, we already have a lot of natives in the platform. For paid tasks, the quality is vastly superior to the news. I would invite you to try. Top up and experiment with giving instructions to the translators. And please get in touch with us, I would love to chat.

Ah, thanks, sorry, bug on our part, being corrected right now, thank you for pointing it out.

Thank you for your comment, that is exactly where are trying to get to.

Both recaptcha and duolingo were started by the brilliant Louis Von Ahn. I am a big fan of his work. He was the inspiration for my first startup, while at CMU.

Why should it not be available?

Also, you are correct, one of the things we are noticing is that requiring that the translator be native in the target language provides significant quality. As we increase the community, we will optimize for that. Thanks for commenting.

Thanks! :) I guess that one we could do pretty much instantaneously. Thank you for pointing out.

Thanks Trey. Our goal is to get to 15 minutes of translation time. That would make it usable for email and customer service messages. Right now it depends on when our users are awake and which language pair. Faster time has been a few minutes, average is around an hour.

That is a great point. We have some ideas on how to tackle that problem (like integrating with pontoon, from Mozilla, for example), but right now there would be some strings where that would be a problem. Surprisingly that has proven less of an issue than we had feared originally. In any case, it is a real problem for localization.

We are still trying to figure that out, there is no clear answer regarding how to base the pricing. Perhaps it should be based on words that were actually corrected? So for the time being we basing it only on source language words. For chinese, for example, we probably will do it based on characters, but ideas are welcome.

The content you see on the news.unbabel.com website is translated by all the user community on unbabel. However, only about 15% of our users, the best ones, are given paid translation tasks. We select these 15% based on the feedback system on which users give each other feedback and continuously improve. This and other measures are increasing the overall quality of the translations gradually.