What Is Machine Translation; Advantages And Disadvantages Of Machine Translation?

With increasing demand in translation and lack of qualified linguists created the idea of machine translation because it takes only a few seconds to translate thousands of words irrespective of what language you want to translate. You do not need to have any experience or expertise or subject knowledge to do machine translation, but no language translation services accept this kind of translation because it does not provide quality. Machine translation is 100 percent rejected by the clients.

How to get machine translation?

You can find online websites like Google Translate. Just type Google Translate in your search engine and Google will open the webpage for you. You will see two boxes having drop down menu of languages. First box is used for source language and second box is used for target language. Copy paste your source language in the first box. Google will automatically translate it in your desired language, which you have to select from drop down menu. You can save translated content by copy paste the content in a word file and save it. In addition to Google, there are other software also, that you can find on Google.

Advantages of machine translation

You can have following benefits from machine translation

1. Machine translation can be obtained in seconds

2. Nobody needs any technical information to provide machine translation

3. All languages can be translated online

4. It is free of cost

5. You can use machine translation anytime

Disadvantages of machine translation

If you think that next time, you will use machine translation to save your time and money; you should read following disadvantages of machine translation to avoid unexpected problems.

Do not forget following disadvantages of machine translation

1. No translation agency or translation services provider accept machine translation at all

2. The quality of machine translation is worse that makes the translation horrible

3. Machine doesn’t understand grammar and sentence structure, which is the most important part of translation

4. It doesn’t provide any formatting

5. It cannot be authenticated or certified by language translation services

If you consider above mentioned advantages and disadvantages of machine translation, you would not like to take any risk or run the risk of putting your reputation at stake, you would not prefer machine translation at all.