Re: Google Translate

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 7:09 PM Michael Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sgrìobh Matjaz Horvat na leanas 20/10/2018 aig 17:26:
> > We chose to switch Google Translate, mostly because it doubles the
> > number of Pontoon locales with MT support (103 vs. 48).
> I'm not sure if 'number of locales' is a good litmus for going with
> either, as an aside. It ought to be quality of translations, if you ask
> me... Many of the locales for which Google has less data produce
> translations similar to those it does for Gaelic 'all this base are
> belong to us' kind of translations.

To clarify, by mostly I mean language support is the most significant
_difference_ between the two, and it favours Google Translate.

The most important _factor_ in making the decision was actually
quality, but we were unable to find any serious research favouring one
service over the other.

Ideally, we'll have an opportunity to conduct such research on our own
(because of the specifics of the content we localize), and see which
service (if any) works better for which locale (and maybe even for
which project). To make that happen, we'd need to enable both services
(or even more) and measure which provides more useful (used) results.

-Matjaž
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