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Pros
I like the simplicity and usefulness of this app. We have to translate for patients all the time and this app makes life much better.
The translations are generally pretty good, and the interface is very easy to navigate.
I got brilliant service translating specialized vocabulary. Good quality translations and low cost.
What I like most about this app is very easy to use and practical. It help me in work to understand a many documents and emails in other languages.
Cons
There is nothing I dislike about this software, but I'd imagine it is difficult for them to compete with other software sources such as Google Translate.
Website does not work well on Safari, stop translating. I prefer to use application provided on app store.
As with any machine translation lots of mistakes can occur but that's normal with machine translations. So don't use the machine version for an important/professional text or occasion.
I think that it is really pricey. Besides that, I do not have any other complaints.
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"Translate is perfect translater"
Pros: Translate tool is really cool tool for me. Because it's free to use and easy to use. Supporting multi languages is great feature. Mobile access is really helpful and it saves time.
Cons: I don't have any cons about Translate app. Perfectly working
"The only site for professional translation."
Overall: I use it for my private translations and I am very happy with it. It is very successful especially in business use.
Pros: I have never seen an easier translation site.
Cons: I didn't see any bad features and I didn't know about them.
"Lost (and found) in Translation"
Overall: I have gratefully used this app in multiple situations. As previously mentioned, my older aunts and uncles in Iceland were not required to learn English in school and I shudder to think that their stories would be lost to me without translation that I can provide myself. I have also used this app to ask numerous questions in Spanish while vacationing in Mexico. Lastly, I work as an emergency dispatcher and cannot express the assistance that Google Translate has provided during calls with ESL issues within the Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, Korean, and Russian communities.
Pros: It's free... WOW! I will be a major Word of Mouth reference source. I was super impressed to find Icelandic as a language option. I cannot say the same for the other top rated translation apps. In addition, the ability to have a "conversation" with my non English-speaking older relatives is amazing!
Cons: Icelandic is a difficult language, and Google Translate is somewhat antiquated with the current speech patterns and verbiage. I would like to see alternative option pop ups for particular words and or phrases that in turn would alter the message all together if needed.
"Translate review"
Pros: Makes it incredibly easy to communicate quickly with patients when asking simple questions.
Cons: In depth conversations can still have some miscommunication but it is mitigated with this app.
"Helpful tool "
Pros: Translate helped me whenever I need to translate unknown language to my language. As well as I'm using it to check my grammar.
Cons: It's better if have a mobile app instead of website
"Translate is very practical"
Pros: Translate is an excellent translator, I do my translation work and the translation is incredible. Very easy to use and practical.
Cons: It is an excellent software, practical and organized. Nothing to complain about.
"Translate the review "
Pros: The advantages of this program is that it is easy to use and also provides many services such as translating all languages
Cons: His faults are that sometimes he translates some words incorrectly, and sometimes he makes mistakes in grammar
"Fast, Easy, And Phenomenally Accurate"
Overall: As a travel writer, I am often wandering through foreign markets looking for a good story or a great photo. This app allows me to interact and communicate with locals anywhere in the world—the audio read function was also essential in places like Russia, where I don't read the alphabet! Or other places where some of the local population may not be able to read their own script.
Pros: I use this software daily as an expat in Spain, and I love that it's simple and easy to just type and go. The app is lightweight, so it loads in an instant on a phone, and it's a cinch to reverse the arrow and translate in the other direction (Spanish to English and English to Spanish, for example). I also like the love photo translation! Point this app at a menu or a product label and the app translates the text in the camera!
Cons: It's certainly not feature rich if you want it to have bells and whistles. It's a lightweight app that just translates—that's all I want in a translation app (or on the website), so I think it's pretty ideal. The only downsides for Google Translate come from what all apps face: errors from machine translation. Google's error rate is lower than most though, so I love it.
Vendor Response
"I solve many doubts with this software "
Overall: A good software that I recommend, however as I recommend using it, I also recommend that this software be used along with other language translators in order to get the translation of words, sentences and texts more accurate and appropriate to the idea that tries to reflect the author.
Pros: Translate is another software that is never missing in my day-to-day work, and I say this because sometimes I receive documents, written research, cultural proposals and libretti that are not written in my original language. Although I speak three languages sometimes I need support to understand some words and sentences and their meanings, and translate is indicated for this task, as it allows me to introduce the word or sentence that at the time I do not understand or do not remember and translate, giving me an approximate idea of what the text is trying to express. This tool is very functional and I use it permanently.
Cons: When I make the comparison with other software I have noticed that it does translations that are not faithful to the general ideas described in the text, this reduces a little my productivity, since the translations or readings that I make try to be as accurate as possible and this software sometimes does not allow me.
"Ability to translate any document"
Overall: Translate is an excellent tool to translate any text easily, it offers me several levels of translation and has different capabilities that make it a very professional job to speak in another language with my clients.
Pros: I really like using translate, as it is a very easy to use tool and has a very comfortable and intuitive interface. In addition, this tool allows me to translate any text or translate by voice and also has the possibility of hiring a human translation.
Cons: The only thing I don't like about this tool is that it can get slow or cumbersome at times and has limitations regarding my translations.
"good translating tool"
Pros: I use it when I need fast easy text translation, have it on my phone, I read a lot of Portuguese and Spanish texts, works great on the go.
Cons: no cons, does have the same translation issues as all other tools, loses the meaning in the "to" language sometimes, but overall easy to use tool
"Translate- Good translator"
Overall: Overall. translate is a good software for translation. It is easy to use and very effective for translation.
Pros: Translate is really good for small translations. It offers many amazing features like a camera option that enable you to translate any language without typing. The mic option allows the user to hear the translation quickly. Further, it offers two packages one is free of cost which is really economical.
Cons: The free trial is linked with machine translation and has some limitations. Sometimes the translation is not accurate which is a problem. Further, the ads are really annoying in the free version.
Vendor Response
"TRANSLATE"
Overall: I start to use this software because I always have the same problem with my drivers when they pick any material for a company, sometimes they wanted to ask something and because of the language they get frustrated, sometimes they called me and I asks for them, but sometimes I don't have the time to answer the phone and my son told me about this software, for me and for my drivers this software helps me a lot, I save time, fewer calls, fewer problems, I give you this software a 10. Note: I download on my computer and the drivers download in their cells phones.
Pros: I like this software because is easy to use and fastest way to understand people from other languages, my native language is Spanish and sometimes I have a hard time trying to understand people and sometimes they don't understand me, I definitely recommended this software.
Cons: I don't have anything to say about any negative comment on this software, because for me this product covers all the expectations I need to use.
"extremely useful"
Overall: we have a diverse pool of employees and it's been great for me to be able to communicate with them easily and efficiently
Pros: it is very accurate! it does not give awkward translations that don't make realistic sense.
Cons: I don't know how to leave a phrase off a sentence in English if I don't want that particular word translated, but it's easy enough to figure out.
"Translate sentence with ease"
Overall: overall experience with translate.com is good and I recommend people to try and use it.
Pros: - We can translate words, sentence from 1 language to other language with ease. - There are 2 options for translation in the website Machine translation and Professional translation we can choose one as per our need.
Cons: For simple sentence and words the translation is good and we can use that but some time the translation from machine make the sentence meaning different which is not good.
Vendor Response
"Communication with Anyone Just Got Easier"
Overall: This software helps make an educator's job much easier so I can understand all of my students and can understand their academic needs and strengths.
Pros: I am an educator and have many students who do not speak English. This software makes it to where I can communicate with them and they can transcribe directions to more easily understand assignments. it aids in their ability to learn English.
Cons: Just like humans it occasionally misinterprets words or translates them incorrectly. Having to type the words out is time-consuming as well.
"Translate is valu for money"
Pros: First of all I like this translate app because is very useful app..and any person they can't speak other countries language...they can use this app for translate
Cons: The most likely features is about all languages translation features is very helpful for my business
"It interprete correctly "
Overall: It helps me communicate Easily with customers that dont speak my language
Pros: The speed is one majored thing i like about it, it translate From one language to another language quickly
Cons: Sometimes not all languages are correct when it translate, when translating From english to another language its not correct most times
"Complicated and expensive"
Overall: I think it not worthy to try machine translation with this, except you want to pay for a professional service by human.
Pros: They seem to have a team behind the service that sometimes will give you the good quality of translation.
Cons: The cost is so high and the quality of machine translation is so bad that make me so confused with meaning.
"Translate June 2021"
Overall: The program never glitched or stopped working, and the service was there when we needed it. I never saw any mistake in the grammar or wordings of the translations. It did what we needed it to do.
Pros: The reason my preview job used this software instead of Google Translate or other translation services is the accuracy. It will readily change a document from one language to another. All the company needed was a couple of the most common languages for work orders. For 5 languages 59 dollars, is not a bad price.
Cons: Getting the application up and running on all our computers was confusing at first, after that, it ran smoothly.
"My go to language translator "
Overall: This is the best translator to use on your phone on the go. Quick and efficient.
Pros: It automatically detects the language I have input and it is simple to pick the language that I need to translate to.
Cons: The translation responses are not always perfect, which is an issue with any non-human translation machine.
"This site helps with everything!"
Pros: Easy and fast as well as on-the-go. I love how I am able to use this site as an APP on my smartphone. Whenever I need something translated, I am able to open the APP and use on the spot to help me interpret.
Cons: Sometimes it uses slag words in various languages so it's difficult at times to read and reply to statements with slang words.
"Translate: A Simple Free Online Translator"
Overall: Translate is a very straight-forward and easy to use translation tool that can get you translations in seconds.
Pros: What I liked most about the free online translator by Translate.com is the very user-friendly interface without clunky or unnecessary features clogging up the design.
Cons: The human translation feature ad that comes up after typing in a set of words to translate is somewhat distracting.
"Translate Review"
Overall: I primarily use this software with my global business contacts, but within my agency and on the client-side. It has been great to allow for seamless conversations with team members from across the globe
Pros: Provides an amazing translation solution that works with an immense database of languages and dialects.
Cons: Translations aren't always 100% perfect but for the most part are great!
"Excellent Tool; More Accurate than Google Translate"
Overall: We're figuring out ways to connect with customers who do not primarily speak English. Our organization is in a diverse community, so it really expands our market by having the ability to at least attract clients who are not comfortable with English.
Pros: The accuracy of Translate.com has been the strongest selling point. It routinely provides more accurate results than Google Translate. We're only using the free trial right now, but we will likely upgrade and begin using the subscription-based services in the near future.
Cons: I have no complaints right now, as we are only on the free version of Translate. The only errors we have come across have been in certain quotations and block quotes.