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This topic covers finding a translator or interpreter immediately either in person or by phone or being able to immediately translate between two languages using a website you can get to from your PC, PDA, PocketPC, Palm or web-enabled cellphone. You will have to pay for on-demand phone interpreters. As for web-based automatic translation services where you cut and paste text between languages or translate websites or website pages, we focus on those that are popular and free. At the bottom of the page are some other human translator resources when the need is not so urgent. See our Language Stores topic for companies that sell language translation software and electronic translators.
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Applied Language Solutions. Instant telephone interpreter services. |
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AT&T Access Numbers AT&T USADirect®
Service connects to a variety of language assistance
programs, such as translation services and "in-language"
operators.
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Certified Languages International.
This is a full-service professional language company that specializes in
phone interpreters and document translation services. They provide real-time
telephone interpreters skilled in more than 150 languages that you can be
speaking to in a few minutes. |
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Language Line Services Call Language Line Services
for over-the-phone interpretation in 150 languages, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This page will give you instructions for reaching this service. |
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OneTranslator.com.
A 24/7, on-line global translator phone service . |
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Multilingual Solutions.
Many translation services including 24/7 phone interpreters. |
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1-800-Translate.com.
Online Translator, Spanish, French, German, Japanese. |
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Rosetta Interpreters. On demand phone interpreters available
immediately. |
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Word
Translation. There are many
free translating dictionaries that translate words between different
languages. You can go to our
Translation
Dictionary topic where we list and link to some of the best ones or just do a web search with the
word "dictionary" and the names of the two languages that you
want to translate between. You might also want to include the words
"free online".
Example: free online English Spanish dictionary. |
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| Text Translation. There are fewer free online translation sources for text. We list some of the most popular and best ones here. Multi-Source - means that the website has translation text boxes for multiple language pairs from multiple free sources. All websites listed translate between multiple language pairs. Some also have a Guess Language capability where you paste in sample text for an unknown language and get an evaluation of the language. | |||||||||
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Google Language Tools. Free You can instantly translate text and webpages and even a website using their free tools between a number of language pairs. Their automatic website translation is really cool because once you put in the URL of the website or a page from it and click on a link to go to another page on that website, the new page is also translated automatically. |
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| Humanitas International Free Multi-Source A wonderful website with links to free machine translation websites for text and web pages, to an extensive list of translation resources that includes which languages each one translates. In addition, they have an excellent feature worldwide news translations into your native language. | |||||||||
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Mezzofanti Translations Free Multi-Source This site has put together on one page many of the online translation services that let you select a language pair, type in your word or phrase, and then click - Translate. This is the fastest way to find a good translation as you can work off of one page. Some of these sources are also listed separately below. They also have excellent links to other free and commercial translation resources on the web. |
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| Freetranslation.com
Free
This site
is similar to SYSTRAN and does excellent online translations between about
a dozen language pairs. |
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Free-Translation.ca
Free,
Multi-Source, Guess Language *** They have
the largest collection of free translation product text boxes all on a
single page that we have found so far on the Internet. |
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Free-Translator.com
Free
Multi-Source Just type in the text you want to translate in one of the translation
windows. |
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AltaVista™
Babel Fish Translation.
Free. This is a great
free translation service to quickly
translate a phrase into another
language or to translate web pages. They cover bi-directional translation for
many major
languages. We have tried
it on a few common phrases like "How are you?" and it translated them
perfectly! Thank you
AltaVista™ and SYSTRAN® for your kindness in providing a free translation service
that really works well! |
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Translations.net
Commercial. They offer software and electronic translation products as well as a
professional (human) translator service. |
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WorldLingo. Free. They
have a good variety of language pairs covering the major languages of the
world. |
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About.com - Free Language Translation.
Free.
This is the well known About.com section that
lists and discusses free language translation products available on the web. |
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UK Student Life.
Free Multi-Source
They are the only website we have found that lists languages
in a convenient table with one column with links to text translations
products and one column with links to dictionary translation products. |
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WebPersonal.net-Machine
Translation resources.
Free and commercial.
An extensive list and links to machine
translation websites and products. |
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ATS Language Translations. They have it all, Free and commercial machine translations and human translation services. Plus excellent links to other language translation resources. |
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American Translators Association This is a major language translator association in the United States. You can find a professional translator for almost any language using their site. |
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Applied Language Solutions
They have offices in the United States and United Kingdom. They have over
14,000 specialist translators around the world. They also have free
language tools on their website. |
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DMOZ Translator Associations. A
good list of worldwide translator associations. |
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DMOZ Translation and Interpreter Companies. A
good list of worldwide translation and interpreter companies. Use your
browser Find on this Page menu option
and search for the languages you are interested in from the long list
provided. |
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| Aquarius Directory
of Translators and Interpreters. This is by far the best place to come on the
web to find a translator or interpreter. They have an excellent interface. |
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iLoveLanguages
- Translators. Type
"translators" in their search box and you will get a good list
of human and software translation services. |
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Translators Cafe. Where translators and
their customers meet. |
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Translator Web
They have a very extensive data base of translators worldwide and a very
easy user interface. There is no registration required. |
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