With Translation Hub, users can upload a document to be translated and select all of the languages they need translated, and get the translations back within seconds. This is a step up from their free document translation offering at Google Translate, which is much simpler.
Like with Google Translate’s document translation, Translation Hub generates translations that maintain the original document’s layout and formatting, including graphics. But what sets it apart, aside from scaling, is the option to customize the machine translation engine with glossaries and translation memories, as well as interface support for post-editing.
The concept is far from new. There is already a fair number latvia mobile database of language service providers that offer platform-based translations featuring machine translation. These services often also include dedicated project managers and access to a team of translators or post-editors, and are mostly available on a subscription basis.
Translation Hub is a tool that allows businesses to build their own projects and teams in-house, removing LSPs as the middleman. But that also means that companies will then shoulder the burden that LSPs generally take, which include management of the translation project and any team of translation vendors they choose to take.
And having such a team is necessary in order to make full use of Translation Hub. As Nimdzi’s Sarah Hickey writes, “What benefit will an internal user—whose job is not translation—get from being able to see the original and the translation side by side if they are not a professional editor?”