Online Translator

I love online translator. This beautiful piece of technology makes our life easy and interesting. It’s not just a tool for translating language, but it is a great tool to learn new language also. Thanks to online-translator, now I can say – “hello”, “good morning” and “how are you” in more than 5 different major languages fluently.

Reliable Online Translator
Every body has their own choice. But still most people use Google or Bing when it comes to translate language. But there are other similar services is available also. So which one is a reliable online translator ? I decided to conduct some research on it.

** Please remember, purpose of this article is not to do marketing for any online-translating service.

How I conducted the research ?

• My criteria : I start looking for online-translator service that support Bengali or other less known language.
• Step 1: first I select Google and Bing, as they are the two most prominent online-translating service.
• Step 2 :Then I use Google search engine with the following query “Online translator”. And I randomly selected few from the first page.
• Step 3 : I open the each website (from step 2) and start exploring, how many of this online translator service support Bengali and other less known languages.

** Wikipedia link for Bengali

And these are my findings –

PROMPT online translator
Website: http://www.online-translator.com

PROMT is the company that created the “www.online-translator.com“. PROMT was founded in 1991 by two researcher from Herzen University (St. Petersburg, Russia). PROMT is marketing its software in Europe and the USA. The company has opened a subsidiary in Germany and is developing distribution networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Italy, the USA, Canada, and other countries. One thing I notice – some other online-translator service use PROMT’s translating engine.
PROMPT online translator do not support Bengali or other lesser known language. They support less than 20 different language.

 

Collins
Website : http://www.collinsdictionary.com/translator

Collins has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. They produce resources for UK and International curricula to support teachers and pupils at school and outside the classroom environment. This is one of the oldest running company who deals with education and language-translation related services. Their corporate website http://www.collins.co.uk/
Collins online translator do not support Bengali or other lesser known language.

 

Worldlingo
Website : http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

Worldlingo support less than 20 different language. But also support on-request based translation. Their website did not mention clearly who they are and how long they are in the business. Worldlingo online translator do not support Bengali or other lesser known language.

 

 

 

Google

Google offers two different methods to translate language

• Method 1 : You can go to https://translate.google.ca and translate language.
• Method 2 : You type in the search box “Translate aeroplane ” and hit search. It will give you another search box and some options. Surprisingly Method 2 offers more options.

You can actually hear how the word is pronounced by different accent ! Something that no other online translator service offer. Yes – Google online translator support Bengali and many other lesser known language.

 

Microsoft Bing
Website : http://www.bing.com/translator

For the last few years Microsoft has been trying to make Bing a popular search engine. I must say they have made some significant improvement. But I was surprised to find one specific language that Bing online-translator service offers.

First of all – Yes Bing online translator support Bengali and some other lesser known language. And Microsoft Bing online translator is the only online translator that supports Klingon !!! Yes Klingon !!! This makes Bing online translator is most coolest online translator.

** Wikipedia link for Klingon

 

 

Conclusion
Language translation is in its advanced stage. But it is still evolving.Yes there are many other online-translator service available, but if you need to translate a language for professional or business purpose, then it is better to use a professional service. Must say again, it is a great tools to learn new language and words.

Phila futhi eside ube nempumelelo (Zulu)

Writer – Rubayat M.