14 July 2015

FT quotes translator

From the Best comments from our readers column in today's Financial Times:
"I am a professional translator, and I have been grappling all my working life with the question of how to achieve the best translation. No machine can do that. What Google Translate does is that it compiles known translations of words and expressions and gives you a list of them. It is merely number crunching."
By Abdullah on Cheer up, the post-human era is dawning

ChatGPT, a drafting aid for translation by emulation

On 17 October 2011, I published the first of two posts summarising my general approach to the type of translation/adaptation services I was ...