Gaybutton Posted March 11, 2010 Posted March 11, 2010 Has anyone ever found a web site that provides good Thai to English translation? You might as well forget about sites such as Google Translate. It would have to improve just to do a half-assed job. I rarely get any results other than incomprehensible drivel. If any of you know of any sites at which you can actually get a decent translation, please let us know. Quote
bkkguy Posted March 11, 2010 Posted March 11, 2010 You might as well forget about sites such as Google Translate. an interesting quote from Google in a recent article on machine translation in The Economist - "If you sound like a EU parliamentarian we can translate you quite well" Google's service "learns" by analysing large numbers of documents that have been human-translated - things like the European parliamentary documents are routinely human-translated into 11 languages but there is not such a large database of Thai documents that have been human-translated, and by human volunteer corrections to their output, but again not a lot of that from Thai/Eng text and mostly what people here are trying to translate are from gay romeo profiles that are full of "colloquialisms, idioms and outbursts of self-absorbed teenagers" - never likely to be a strong point of machine-translation! NECTEC has demonstrated some fairly good mobile phone software for real-time voice translation between Thai and other Asian languages (but not English), but again the more standard and formal the text the better the translation this does not help you with your search but may help you tone down your expectations! bkkguy Quote
