Automatic translation of Letter
October 12, 2010 0 CommentsToday I had to send an email to the French Consulate in Chicago. My French is pretty good, but not good enough to write a formal letter. So, I wrote the letter in English, then used http://translate.google.com to convert it into French.
Unfortunately, you really have to be a French speaker to tweak the
output a bit. The automatically translated text had some errors,
but mostly they were caused by English idioms that I used. Since I
knew what text I wanted, I could see which input text was causing
the errors.
But in the end, I got some pretty decent French text -- much easier for me than writing it in French in the first place. But, like I said, it helps to speak the target language.



