Regardless of its well-known drawbacks, machine translation is rapidly growing as a cost-effective technology in the translation industry and it is expected to transform this sector significantly over the next few years. Some customers tend now to use machine translation to translate large volumes of content more quickly. This will help to deliver cost savings to the customer, as the time required to complete projects is reduced to a great extent. Billions of dollars are invested on a yearly basis to develop machine translation solutions that match regular human translations, but all these investments couldn’t give the ax to the human translator. Translation is still a mental and cultural work that can never be properly done without human intervention. Unawareness of the context and lack of human mental abilities required to accurately grasp and figure out the required meaning of the source text proved to be the Achilles heel of machine translation.

Softrans found the perfect solution for this fatal defect through our Hu-Machine Translation process. It is a mix of machine translation and ordinary human translation to ensure all the gains of machine translation are attained while avoiding its drawbacks. Using our Hu-Machine process is a win-win situation for you, since you benefit both from cost savings resulting from machine translation and a reasonable level of quality due to human participation in some production stages of your project. We provide Hu-Machine Translation option for customers in need of significantly fast turnaround for huge volumes.

However, to be honest with our clients we state that Hu-Machine Translation strategy doesn’t guarantee the same quality provided in normal TEP (translation & editing & proofreading) cycle. On the other hand, this approach really saves the situation in giant projects that need to be delivered in the shortest time possible. It should be known that the Hu-Machine Translation approach isn’t always applicable. It can be only employed in certain projects and specific fields of translation due to some technical and linguistic reasons. Softrans can advise you whether Hu-Machine Translation is the perfect option for you or not based on our evaluation of your project scope and material to be translated.