It wasn’t that long ago when we thought machine translation to be impossible. But now, with the advent of Google Translate and other machine translation options, we are living in a time where science fiction has become reality. This inevitably leads to a pressing question, “who wins: machine or human.” The folks over at Verbalink set out to find the answer. The infographic below, divided into two rounds, assesses the translation skills of a professional human translator vs. “state of the art” machine translation by Google.
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While it seems apparent that machine translators are useful for basic translations, professional human translators are experts of their crafts. Human translators possess a great deal of cultural insight, and they are better editors who have the ability to shape and work on a piece until it is ready for public consumption, guaranteeing a close match to the original document. Even the most skilled machine translation software is not capable of this yet.
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