The translation of texts, documents, projects or even complete web pages is a task that many users perform Sometimes in the month. Although on the Internet we meet different apps and language applications, one of the most known is the Google translator (In English Google Translate ).
A free Google translation service that solves our linguistic deficiencies in another language.
Whether to use it as an translator from English to Spanish , or the other way around, from Spanish to English, not only saves us time, but we are talking about an application of free translation and that thanks to its latest updates – be incorporates artificial intelligence – translated texts are already becoming more appropriate.
In its day we already saw the Google Scholar, and today, we are going to see a guide with different tips and tools to obtain better quality translations… How to use the google translate?
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The simplest way to understand how the Google translate is with a simple image where we highlight the main features:
As you can see in the image of the Google dashboard Translator, its use is very simple with the possibility of translate up to 103 languages (There are some restrictions on languages out of the ordinary that can be seen from HERE)
For those of us who do not have much knowledge of English from a grammatical perspective, when we translate a text, we really don't know if the translation is understandable and clear for the user who reads the text.
To solve this aspect, there is a tool free called Hemingwayapp. It only works for texts in English, it is accessed from here and what the application tells us by means of colors is:
From a grammar and readability perspective it's great. In addition to giving us a score on the clarity of the text, we recommends options to improve if we put the cursor over of the relevant color:
Another of the most popular free tools for correct our English writing and that we recommend, is the Grammarly application (Access from HERE). Very practical! It even reviews the grammar of our Emails.
To explore its potential, it is better to access its extension Google Chrome from HERE (First you need to have an account on Grammarly, and then download the extension). By For example, we can correct the texts of Google Docs:
Once we have the corresponding permissions. when opening a document, we will see the Grammarly icon on the top bottom right of the page, indicating that you are working.
There are also several grammar checkers for English that will help us to write better based on Artificial intelligence. We directly recommend Linguix which is free premium, but for texts and sentences normal in length, the free version is sufficient. A Simple to use and very powerful tool:
And it will not only help us create better texts in Anglo-Saxon (even at the business level) avoiding possible errors, but which will also help us to improve our level of English , if applicable, with the possibility of creating our personal dictionary.
For those of us who spend all day diving in the net and changing languages. This is the Google extension Chrome that uses Google Translate and that, without doubt it, it is the most useful.
We can access from HERE to add it to the browser. Is very simple to use, once added to the section of extensions, we will only have to press the right button of the mouse to bring up a menu with the option to « Translate to Spanish «.
We can use it in two ways:
Of course, another tip is to have it on mobile. A Google translator app to use in the mobile with Android or the smartphone with iOS.
With quite remarkable characteristics for interpret texts such as:
When using the phone's camera to translate a menu, banners or other text you find, the application of Google Translate will show us immediate translations directly on the phone screen (If you have downloaded the language pack). It comes in handy when you travel!
The chat mode is very good. Use the microphone mobile to obtain translations quickly, be it for translate conversations between user and speaker or, if we touch the red button on the microphone, it will be in direct conversation mode where you will hear both languages and will offer real-time translations.
Thanks to the versatility of this tool we can translate an entire website – for example from Spanish to English – in a very easy way. The trick is to add the URL of the web, as we indicate in the following image:
Remember, that as we have indicated previously, with the Google translate chrome extension is much easier transcribe texts into another language .
Keep in mind that this is also useful for learning English, we can use it as a translator from Spanish to English .
When we have to present documents in another language or simply transcribe them into Spanish, we have the opportunity to upload documents and have a translation done automatic.
First we have to make sure that our document is in appropriate size and format. Documents can be uploaded to file format; Microsoft Word in .doc and .docx format, plain text with the extension .txt, in HTML, in format excel with .xls or .xlsx, in .pdf or even in Power Point with .ppt and .pptx.
As an alternative to the English translator of Google, if we have a larger document, we can access from HERE to a free online application specialized in documents. That in addition to pouring the information in another language, we may split the PDFs or pass a PDF to Word. It's very interesting!
We can also translate larger documents with Google Doc s which is free. We enter from HERE (We log in as a user), upload the document and click on the tools section:
It will ask us to add a new name and the choice of language. It's that easy!... Keep in mind that translations through Google Docs maintains the structure of the document very well, be it in PDF or Word. Another utility to translate from English to Spanish !
As a note, instead of documents, if we want translate videos and we don't know why subtitles are in English or any other language.
How to put subtitles in Spanish to the videos? One has to follow the following four steps to add subtitles on automatic to Youtube (It is essential that the author, when uploading the video, allow to transcribe the voice by adding automatic subtitles):
Play texts in other languages from the video format is already a reality that works quite a lot good.
Remember, we can pass the "playback speed" to a minor state, can be better translated, and sometimes Americans they speak very fast and need to play a little more slow to understand correctly.
Focusing from Spanish to English. The precision of the machine translation depends on the amount of linguistic content to be compared. The greater the volume of content, the more accurate it will be. Therefore, Google Translate is usually better in languages to and from English.
From experience, when we want to translate a text into English or other languages, we should be careful with:
Although we can find several tools and online dictionaries that allow us some translations decent, the only translator that beats Google Translate is the Deepl translator (we can access from HERE) based in artificial intelligence.
Unfortunately, the free account has limitations on the transcription of texts into English, with a maximum of 3000 characters. So it will only serve us for small texts and has few languages, which are; English French, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian.
With the Deepl online application we can also translate Microsoft Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) documents with the free version. In addition to these two file formats, paying subscribers, can also with files in .txt format.
An example of Deepl vs. translation done with Google talking about foundations would be:
Although similar, the syntax is better!
Another alternative is the Microsoft Translator (From HERE) that can translate text, web pages, voice, images, all kinds of documents and complete conversations, either in a browser or through a mobile device.
You can also try the following translator in this same page that works with the latest in AI. Sometimes it takes a while! But it works well to translate from English to Spanish (English to Spanish).
Reproducing texts in other languages is already a reality that it is done quite well. And remember that recently too we saw another Google application to create virtual tours in 360º that can be useful for our projects.
Handling in Performer mode of Assistant is quite simple:
Although the system is not perfect, it can get us out of some hurry.
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