Testimonial: Ana Escobedo-Boulard, languages of the world

"I'm rather sceptical as to whether a machine will ever translate a text as well as a human. Translation is a difficult art, so subjective and complicated, so adapted to the culture of each country. As professionals, we have no right to make mistakes. A misinterpretation can prove problematic in the case of a document relating to a merger-acquisition, or even dramatic in the case of a pharmaceutical leaflet. We haven't yet found any software that goes far enough, although there is translation memory software that helps to find bits of identical sentences that have already been translated. In the end, the solutions are still very basic, with a relevance of 80%. Nevertheless, they enable users to translate a document globally enough to know what it's all about. "