Technology and engineering

We are keen to work with our customers on terminology. Most technical terms have synonyms and can be translated in different ways, so it is best if you can work with us to ensure that we use your preferred terms. Our translators can answer most terminology questions by looking up technical information for similar products online and using dedicated glossaries, but it always helps if we can have a dialogue with you as well. Technology is such a wide field that no technical translator can know all the specialist terms that exist, even if they specialise in just one or two areas.

We have technical solutions that help translators to automatically pull up phrases translated before, so you get a hefty discount on repetitions.

Translating is about much more than simply converting words in one language into words in another. To achieve a good machine-translated text, the source text needs to be extremely clear and accurate, for example. Unfortunately, technical texts are often very poorly written (unclear and inconsistent, with grammatical errors) so when being translated they need to be interpreted by a human for the best result. A machine translates exactly what it sees, leaving nothing out, so a poorly written source text will produce an even worse translation. We see machine translation as a helpful tool, not something that can be used on its own. A human translator with technical expertise and stylistic know-how can reformulate the text to make it understandable in the target language and review the terminology to ensure that it is consistent.