Google Translator not working in Studio

Francisco Mar Rubio wrote:

Great Bjørnar!!!

I tried what you said but the SDLXLIFF Convertor says it can not find the files, although I clearly specify where they are.

Any clue?

Thanks!

Mariusz Lasota wrote:

As expected, Google has now harvested enough work for free from human translators and now it's time to pay up in return! Google is now shutting down its free google translate service. Shutdown will proceed in stages and service will be limited at first (the problems you are experiencing now) and then will stop completely (December 1, 2011). You will then have to pay to use google API. Your software will have to send a unique code (you need to pay to get one) in each query to receive a response.
The problem with SDL Studio is that right now google translate service is "hard coded" into software with no user-adjustable settings, so there is no way of modifying the query to include the unique ID code.
Until SDL issues some kind of update to provide a setting to incorporate the unique ID code, Google Translate API is no more. They will perhaps strike some kind of a deal with Google, but that I think is unlikely. Google has a neat way of using human work for free and then finding ways of making money on it.
So pay up guys!

Google is making some nonsense excuses about the cost of running the free service. This was the plan all along. Let everyone use the service for free initially, harvest translations, let professionals correct them (by sending the corrected segments back), get everyone hooked and then make them pay.

[Edited at 2011-10-12 19:09 GMT]

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:

How can you send the correct segment back? It stays on your PC, unless I'm missing something... can you explain?

G

Paul Malone wrote:

As a long-standing Trados customer, what I'm wondering is why SDL didn't manage to foresee this. The memoQ screenshot uploaded by Michael Beijer appears to suggest that some (at least one) of the competitors apparently did prepare for this. If SDL Trados is reputedly the "industry standard", why are we playing catch-up?

Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:

can you send the correct segment back? It stays on your PC, unless I'm missing something... can you explain?

G

Mariusz Lasota wrote:



For sure the web service allows correcting the translation before you use it and these corrections are captured by Google.
As far as SDL Studio is concerned you obviously edit a segment (most often substantially) before accepting it and storing in your TM. It is only natural that such a corrected segment would be sent back to Google for storage/analysis. This is of course only a theory and would need to be confirmed by a software engineer who knows how to monitor outgoing traffic from an application. Very few translators would know how to do that or even think of confirming something like this. I do however have a strong feeling that after repeatedly correcting certain (mistranslated) phrases Google translate eventually "learns" the phrase, which would confirm that there is some feedback.