Comparison of machine translation applications

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A machine translation application is a program which can translate text or speech from one natural language to another. Machine translation applications are essential to the modern language industry. Please see the individual products' articles for further information.

[edit] General information

Basic general information for popular Machine translation applications.

Name Platform License Price Latest stable release Source availability Notes
Apertium Unix compatible
Precompiled packages available for Debian GNU/Linux		 GPL Free 3.0 Yes
OpenLogos Windows, Linux GPL or Paid

initiative taker

 Free or not 1.0.3 Yes
Moses (machine translation) Cross-platform LGPL Free 2008-07-11 Yes Drop-in replacement for Pharaoh, features factored translation models and decoding of confusion networks.
Google Translate Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free Beta No Not based on SYSTRAN [1]
Lingoes Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free 2.5.3 Yes
Windows Live Translator Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free Final No Based originally on SYSTRAN
SYSTRAN Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free ? No
GramTrans Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free ? No
Promt Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free 8.0 No Rules based machine translation
SDL International Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware/Human translation Free Automatic Translation / Human Translation 0.10$ per word ? No
Babylon Windows, Mac Paid Depend on license (from 34$ to 89$ for one license) 7.5.2 No
MetaMorpho Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free ? No
Applied Language Solutions Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Freeware Free ? No
InterTran ? Paid ? ? No
WorldLingo Cross-platform
(Web application)		 Paid and Free (15 USD/month for 2 languages, 203 for 15) ? No Free translation in 15 languages for e-mail, text, documents, and websites. There's also an unlimited consumer tool, myWorldLingo for $4.95 per month with a 30 day free trial.

[edit] Languages features comparison

The following table compares the amount of languages which the following machine translation programs can translate between. (Moses allows to automatically train translation models for any language pair, though only a japanese-english collection of translated texts (parallel corpus) is available and one for other languages need to be provided by the user.)

Language Apertium Google Translate Babel Fish Windows Live Translator GramTrans SYSTRAN 1-800-translate PROMT WorldLingo
To English Chinese (Simplified) to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Chinese (Traditional) to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Spanish to English Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japanese to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
German to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
French to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Welsh to English Yes No No No No No No No No
Korean to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Tagalog to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Italian to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese to English No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dutch to English No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Arabic to English No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Polish to English No Yes No No No Yes Yes No No
Swedish to English No Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes
Turkish to English No Yes No No No No Yes No No
Persian to English No No No No No No Yes No No
Romanian to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Czech to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Hebrew to English No Yes No No No No Yes No No
Danish to English No Yes No No Yes No No No No
Finnish to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Hungarian to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Greek to English No Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes
Catalan to English Yes Yes No No No No No No No
Norwegian to English No Yes No No Yes No No No No
Serbo-Croatian to English No Yes No No No Yes ? No No
Ukrainian to English No Yes No No No No No No No
Hindi to English No Yes No No No No ? No No
Galician language to English Yes Yes No No No No No No No
Language Apertium Google Translate Babel Fish Windows Live Translator GramTrans SYSTRAN 1-800-translate PROMT WorldLingo
To Chinese (Simplified) English to Chinese (Simplified) No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To Chinese (Traditional) English to Chinese (Traditional) No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To Spanish English to Spanish Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian to Spanish No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
French to Spanish Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes
German to Spanish No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
To Japanese English to Japanese No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To German English to German No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
French to German No Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes Yes
Spanish to German No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
Russian to German No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
To French English to French No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
German to French No Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes Yes
Spanish to French Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes
Russian to French No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
Dutch to French No Yes Yes No No Yes ? No Yes
To Korean English to Korean No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To Italian English to Italian No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To Portuguese English to Portuguese No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
To Russian English to Russian No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
French to Russian No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
Spanish to Russian No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
German to Russian No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
Italian to Russian No Yes No No No No ? Yes Yes
To Dutch English to Dutch No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
French to Dutch No Yes Yes No No Yes ? No Yes
To Galician English to Galician Yes No No No No No No No No
Language Apertium Google Translate Babel Fish Windows Live Translator GramTrans SYSTRAN 1-800-translate PROMT WorldLingo
To Arabic English to Arabic No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
To Polish English to Polish No Yes No No No No Yes No No
To Swedish English to Swedish No Yes No No No Yes No No Yes
To Turkish English to Turkish No Yes No No No No Yes No No
To Persian English to Persian No No No No No No Yes No No
To Romanian English to Romanian No Yes No No No No No No No
To Czech English to Czech No Yes No No No No No No No
To Hebrew English to Hebrew No Yes No No No No Yes No No
To Danish English to Danish No Yes No No Yes No No No No
To Finnish English to Finnish No Yes No No No No No No No
To Hungarian English to Hungarian No Yes No No No No No No No
To Greek English to Greek No Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes
To Catalan English to Catalan Yes Yes No No No No No No No
To Norwegian English to Norwegian No Yes No No Yes No No No No
To Serbo-Croatian English to Serbo-Croatian No Yes No No Yes No No No No
To Ukrainian English to Ukrainian No Yes No No No No ? No No
To Hindi English to Hindi No Yes No No No No ? No No
Total (confirmed) 9 59 30 25 6 36 32 24 43

[edit] See also

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