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myGengo Blog
mygengo.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009
myGengo is a human translation startup whose blog covers its translation API, plus startup operations, scaling, and SEO lessons.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly point to myGengo as a human translation option, especially after Google's Translate API shutdown, and one commenter discloses working there.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Human Based Translation API12 people · 36 points · first shared 2009 · 9 comments on HN
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- 6Server Power-ups That Worked For Our Startup: Handling 10x Traffic2 people · 65 points · first shared 2011 · 15 comments on HN
- 7Google Shutting Down Translate API - Alternatives2 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
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- 12Power Blogging Hour (and Why You Should Have One Too)1 people · 42 points · first shared 2011 · 15 comments on HN
- 13Chinese: Simplified, Traditional, Mandarin or Cantonese (The Simple Answer)1 people · 28 points · first shared 2011 · 22 comments on HN
- 14MyGengo launches $30,000 API bounty1 people · 19 points · first shared 2010 · 7 comments on HN
- 156 Uses for Machine Translation That Don’t Suck1 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 5 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
senko · 2011-06-03
This is great news for MyGengo (http://mygengo.com/). They have a free machine translation API which can be upgraded to (paid) human translation by toggling a flag.
Granted, they support a lot less languages, but for the supported ones, MyGengo sounds like a much better option, unless Google manages to improve their translation and beat MyGengo pricing.
The quality of the Google Translate is awesome, considering it's automatic, but still falls short of the human doing the job. Also, it'll be interesting to see what Duolingo (http://duolingo.com/) can do, once it launches.
Klonoar · 2011-05-27
Full disclosure: I currently work with the company detailed below (myGengo).
Depending on your needs, you could consider human based translation, which is generally more accurate than machine-based translation. Over at myGengo (http://mygengo.com/) we offer an API to help people get translations done by an actual translator, as opposed to a machine (think Mechanical Turk, but focused on translation). Feel free to check it out - various libraries abound:
http://mygengo.com/services/api/
An advantage to going with this approach is that the myGengo API can also return a machine translation while a job is being worked on; a takeaway here is that even if a service like Google shuts down, it should be fairly simple to use another service behind the scenes, keeping a nice level of transparency for you.
Of course, if you'd like to stick with general machine translations, you could check out the following - should be close enough:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/
cristinacordova · 2012-05-06
she could sign up to be a translator on mygengo: http://mygengo.com/
fookyong · 2011-11-01
outsource it.
http://mygengo.com should sort you out.
you still take on clients, you just won't be the one doing all the translation yourself. your role will be more of a project manager / QA role. should be easier to scale.
markerdmann · 2011-07-31
Here are a few of my favorite crowdsourcing links. They're not all directly related to Mechanical Turk, but you may find them interesting.
Research on crowdsourcing complex tasks, such as writing articles (open source):
http://smus.com/crowdforge
A company that adds an automated quality layer and/or automated peer review layer:
http://www.crowdflower.com
Crowdsourced translation:
http://www.mygengo.com
Audio transcription through MTurk:
http://www.castingwords.com
Crowdsourcing scientific research:
http://www.hypios.com/
robert_mygengo · 2011-06-04
Hey guys
We currently source our API's machine translation from Google, but we're going to be connecting to several other providers in the next few months. Depending on Google's pricing model we may or may not include them in the roster.
We think it's best to connect to our API, because you can 'upgrade' to human translation without switching out code (it's just a single parameter in an API call).
If you want to try us out, we're currently running a $25-credits-free campaign to switch to our API.
http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/translation-apis-google-shutting-down-but…
(CEO, myGengo)
abhikshah · 2011-01-24
FYI: http://mygengo.com/ provides a platform for crowd-sourced translations. Of course, the market is big enough for multiple players..
po · 2010-10-09
Maybe you can use something like MyGengo and just ask for an english to english translation. ;-)
http://mygengo.com/
mromaine · 2010-04-15
(full disclaimer - I work at myGengo)
myGengo (http://mygengo.com) tests translators and does quality-checking for multiple levels to ensure customers are happy with the output. We also allow customers to rate translators and - I'm trying to be honest here - we're almost embarrassed to show the feedback comments because they sound too good (http://mygengo.com/talk/customers/testimonials).
Customers also have the option to request changes / corrections, and even to reject if they are not fully satisfied.
Anyways, just an alternative solution. The online-translation market gets interesting by the day :)
csytan · 2010-02-21
Hey andrew,
I've been working on launching a site like this for the last 5 months. Feel free to check it out:
http://www.caterpi.com/
Also some competitors in the same space:
http://onehourtranslation.com and
http://mygengo.com
KERNEL2 · 2011-09-26
joshzayin · 2011-05-30
FYI to the dev: There's an extra > on http://mygengo.com/translator/ : "Simply sign up here and take a test to get started. Your test will be reviewed within 30 days by a Senior Translator who is native in the language. If you pass the test, you can then browse and work on jobs.> "
marklabedz · 2011-02-17
Maybe you were thinking of this post (it was on HN a few weeks ago, I think):
http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/15-web-services-we-rely-on-every-day/
They're using Salesforce.
markszcz · 2011-02-15
Awesome!!!! They even look good too. I might think about getting one and whip up an Android library for people to use.
Question to anyone reading this. What would be a good use to notify users? There was an article on HN about startups using a visual dashboard: http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/why-your-startup-needs-a-visual-dashboard…
I think something like that would be cool to have. Hook into your KPI's and have that information right there on your wrist.
chirish · 2010-12-28
A good alternative to this that I have used is myGengo's free localization tool, String (http://mygengo.com/string/). It allows you to upload various types of lang files, and collaborate with translators working in multiple languages from a simple UI. You can also create public projects so community members can view and request access. Codeligniter, amongst several others, have done this to translate their language packs(http://mygengo.com/string/public_projects)
Loic · 2010-04-26
Very short question here as it may be of interest for other HN readers. How would you send a .pot file to be translated through your API? Removing everything but the text and send a kind of one page work? Are you splitting the work in the background in smaller chunks if long?
Edit: They have the solution for .po files: http://mygengo.com/string/about