6 Reasons to Avoid Using Google Translate

Who has never used Google Translate? Few, certainly. It is an online tool with enormous success, completely free and, for example, often used by students to finish dissertations and projects. 

It is certain that many people use this tool also for important documents in their field of expertise and at that point translation companies appear to be the only solution in order to have a quality translation in the end.

In light of this, Globalization & Localization Association (GALA) compiled a list of advices to avoid replacing quality translation with Google Translate. The text is here: “6 Reasons to Avoid Using Google Translate”. 

6 Reasons to Avoid Using Google Translate

1. Machine translation saves time and reduces costs, but free translation platforms are not ideal when important/confidential/creative documents are involved.
2. Machine learning and machine translation tools are known to have bugs.
3. As The Guardian points out, if the English version of The Girl from Ipanema had been automatically translated by Google, Frank Sinatra would be singing: “Girl in the golden body, sun from Ipanema, the it swung its more than a poem"
4. Back translations using Google Translation are no guarantee of checking if the content has been translated accurately.
5. To use Google Translation, you need to be connected to the internet at all times.
6. Interpreters can’t use Google Translate because they would have to type everything people said in meetings and conferences into the tool to be able to provide a translation.

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This text was not written by a native English speaker, but by a language lover. However, all our language services are always provided by native speakers.

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