Text translation
Computer are very good in simple tasks without having to look for the content around the task which may cause a very different meaning. This is often true and especially translating ordinary text is difficult to program. Here are some example sites for translating text.
All kind of protocols are used to store the information for dictionaries, thesauri and translations. One of them which is quite intriguing is the dict protocol [1] used in StarDict and also (using a conversion-tool) for the Apple iMac Dictionary.
Babylon
The expensive Babylon[2] software delivers a good dictionary, but the on-line-translator-site is poor in full text translation. Also the license is strictly for one computer and not user based. Babylon has a very large language support, but the quality stil is not more than reasonable.
Dictionary
Search Engine Ask[3] has a simple but nice looking text-translation service (powered by Google) including also Dutch <-> German. The site also contains a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia
Google Translator
Google[4] is one of the better translators.
iTools
The general iTools[5] site has a wrapper page for dictionaries. So this is not a text language translator! Reason to put this site is the interesting wrapped websites. Merriam Webster, Cambridge International, Wordsmyth, Idioms/Sayings and much more.
Langenberg
Langenberg provides a wrapper for Google, Yahoo, X10/Free Translation[6], Applied Language[7] and Intertran[8]. The supported languages are limited. The translations of the not already descripted translators is poor.
- Langenberg Translation X10.
Reverso
Reverso the free online translation service in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese. The translations look good. The site offers Translatiom, Dictionary, Conjugation and Webpage translation.
Stardict
A SourceForge project which is based on the dict protocol [1].
- StarDict, Free Client for windows, Linux and Mac.
- StarDict Manual, Author Hu Zheng, Version Jan 2011 - V3.0.2
- StarDict Manual, Details
SystraNet
SYSTRAN Der Weltweit führende Hersteller von Übersetzungssoftware has a text translation site with limited languages (Dutch <-> English/French).The quality of the translation is good.
TranslateIt
TranslateIt is a Russian Dictionary Engine for Windows and Mac. It uses dictionaries with the extension .mdict and .dict.
- TranslateIt, Mac Homepage
- Stardict, Free Sourceforge Star-dictionaries.
- xdxf, Free dictionaries.
- freedict, Free GNU dictionaries.
Wordreference
The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries based on the English language. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish Dictionary, French Dictionary and the Italian Dictionary, but German, Russian are also available. So not Dutch here.
Yahoo Babel Fish
top Yahoo Babel fish has been one of the better translators.
See also
- Dictionary, Languages
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 dict.org, Home page of the dict-protocol used in StarDict.
- ↑ Babylon's dictionary and translation software offers results from a database of 1,400 sources in 75 languages. The database includes 33 professional dictionaries in 17 languages developed by Babylon's own linguistic team: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Russian, Korean, Swedish, Greek, Arabic and Turkish.
- ↑ Ask, Search Engine for Web, Images, News, Deal$ and lots of answers. There are several Language specific version including Germany and Dutch.
- ↑ Google is well known. The translation department supports all most used languages.
- ↑ iTools quick access to the best Internet Tools is a wrapper site. Its is specialist on Search, Language, Research, Financial, Map, Internet and People Search/Tools.
- ↑ Free Translation
- ↑ Applied Language
- ↑ Tranexp