Translation Services

Six of the best sites for translation services. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. SDL International - Use their free language translation tool online for translations of sentences or short documents, or use their paid translation services for larger scale documents and translation projects. Claims to be able to translate over 150 language directions (i.e., English to Spanish, Russian to English, etc.). (www.freetranslation.com)

2. Applied Language Solutions - Translation company with offices in multiple countries, offering over 6,000 translators for financial documents, medical documents, legal documents, marketing documents, and any other kind of document you can think of. (www.appliedlanguage.com)

3. Translation Services USA - Translation service repertoire includes document translation, Web site translation, and software localization in more than 100 languages. (www.translation-services-usa.com)

4. Weizman Software Localization - Israeli company translates your software and documentation into almost any language, specializing in Hebrew and Arabic, but also translating to French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swediush, Turkish and others. (www.wsl.co.il)

5. Translation Service Tips from Asist Translation Services - Columbus, Ohio translation company offers tips on doing translation projects right, including differences between language sizes, punctuation, multimedia translation issues and more. You can obviously also learn about their translation services here. (www.asisttranslations.com)

6. AltaVista Babel Fish Translation - Free online translation service gives you a rudimentary translation of a block of text or translation of a Web site written in a foreign language. Computer-generated translation tends to give a literal translation, meaning figures of speech and different sentence structures often make it confusing to use. (babelfish.altavista.com)