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Translution Pro Launches on BBC 3
21 November 2005
Ted Marshall, Managing Director of Translution, had the unique opportunity to launch Translution Pro on BBC 3's evening news along with a survey on how the British public's lack of language skills condemn them to higher priced, mainstream package holidays. According to their research:
- Nearly half (45%) of British tourists who travel to non-English speaking countries feel they are preyed upon by tourist companies who take advantage of their lack of language
- Two thirds (67%) are herded to popular 'English' tourist sites and are unable to leave the tourist trail
- Three quarters (76%) miss out on interesting places and better deals because they only speak English
- Around half (45%) accept that getting ripped off is part of the deal, and they can do nothing about it
Translution
Pro provides a completely automatic translation service that can help
the beleaguered tourist find dream holidays off the beaten path. Conducting
research with "the locals" and booking in at charming B & B's and villas.
Translution's technology works by automatically re-directing emails, web pages and electronic documents to Translution Central - their state-of-the-art fully resilient internet-hosted translation facility.
The solution plugs into the user's existing software, so you don't have to change the way you work. It currently translates into English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, detects languages to be translated, uses dictionaries to improve translation quality, automatically translates email attachments, does document batch translation, and has unlimited number of words translated at one time. So you can use it for more than just planning holidays.
The software currently supports 5 European languages and next on Translution's list are Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, and other European languages.
To download the software, visit: www.translution.com
To keep up to date with what's happening at Translution visit their blogspot at http://translutionblog.blogspot.com