Free Translation Websites
Joan Neumann Lowrey
German Research Association, 5 May 2007


http://www.word2word.com/free.html

            Enterprise translation Server            http://www.freetranslation.com

            Intertran                                         http://intertran.tranexp.com/Translate/result.shtml

            Alta Vista                                       http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

            WORLDLINGO.COM                 http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

            Translated.net                                 http://free.translated.net/

            Reverso                                          http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.asp?lang=FR

            Linguatec e-Translation Server        http://www.linguatec.net/onlineservices/pt


http://www.e-freetranslation.com

            Translation by www.tranexp.com. Same as Intertran (above).


http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/

            Dictionary


http://www.freetranslation.com


http://www.world.altavista.com

            Same as http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn (above)      


http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en


http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/wiki/Transserv

            Human translators. Limit: 40 lines of 60 characters each. Via e-mail.

            Handwritten documents, German to English, can be mailed.  There will be a fee for these.

            Genealogy-related texts only.

            For translations to German, please tell the translator if you want a formal (Sie) or

                        informal (Du) form of address.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translate-genealogy/

            Subscribe to the group.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transcribe/

            Subscribe to the group. For transcriptions of, i.e., old German documents (including a translation of the transcribed original German text)


www.jewishgen.org

            Put your cursor over Projects at the top,  then click on View Mate. Here you can upload images, documents, etc. and others will help with identification, translations, etc. View time: 7 days, then is available in the archives. Can post documents in many languages, including German; they do not have to have Jewish connections.


Dashboard

            Included in the latest Macintosh operating system, known as Tiger. Pressing the Dashboard's icon pops up dialog boxes for a number of small productivity tools, including language translation. Type or paste text to be translated. Thirteen possible languages. Appears to accept no more than 50 words


http://www.babylon.com

            Download 30-day Trial or Paid version.

                        “The Babylon Click -Text Translation in a single click. During the installation process, Babylon's default activation keys are Ctrl+Right click. This combination will automatically initiate the Babylon translation service. This is the Babylon Click.

                        To translate words, phrases or texts in a single click, just Babylon-click on a word within the desired text. The Babylon window automatically opens and displays the translation or dictionary results for the selected term or text.

                        For text translation (a paragraph for example) simply Babylon-click on one word within the text and Babylon automatically captures the surrounding text and initiates the text translation service.


 More on WorldLingo:

The free translator for text has a limit of 150 words; websites: 500 words, e-mails: 150 words. Unlimited translations (translate websites, e-mails, documents: $4.95/mo.).

“The power of WorldLingo's translation services have been integrated into Microsoft Office XP. All Office customers have access to WorldLingo’s specialist online translation services, which provide translations for single words, phrases and entire documents using a unique combination of either fast machine translation or professional human translation.” 

Can download a plugin for Word 2002.