Professional Machine Translation Service (MTPE) |

Professional Machine Translation Service (MTPE)

Andiamo! has been providing machine translation services for over a decade, covering a wide range of language pairs.

We have optimised our MT services to produce the highest quality machine translated output, providing an accurate and affordable translation solution for a range of technical and non-creative translation projects.

When do we use MT?

We offer machine translation services to clients like Herma, Southco, BOBST and Textron, in technical sectors such as automotive, manufacturing, and engineering with:

Large volume, technical translation projects.
Quick turnaround, non-creative translation projects.
Information only, gist translation requirements.

For creative projects, we would recommend human translation, as MT does not always capture the brand messaging or cultural nuances. We also recommend human translation for medical and legal translation.

Machine translation is most suitable for content such as user guides and manuals, technical catalogues and brochures, knowledge bases, – any text that’s not creative or specialised.

If you are not sure if your project is suitable for machine translation, just get in touch and we will gladly help.

Our machine translation service

At Andiamo, we offer human, machine translation post-editing (MTPE) as standard (rather than machine post-editing), to provide you with the highest-quality output that approaches the quality of traditional human translation, at a faster rate, and a lower service cost.

We are 100% transparent about all elements of our service, and offer a variety of machine translation service levels to serve a range of requirements, and ensure you understand the precise service you’re receiving.

MT Service Levels

Full human MTPE – Carried out by native speaking, skilled, experienced and sector specialist translators, who have trained or worked in your sector and have a firm understanding of its terminology. Our translators post-edit the machine generated output to enhance its readability, and align quality as closely as possible with human translated content. This involves checking and adapting the text to improve translation accuracy, spelling, grammar, fluency, and ensuring that the translation is suitable and appropriately localised for your target audience and territory.
Light post-editing – As the name suggests, our light post-editing service offers a light, basic revision of your machine translation output. The service includes editing mistranslations, translating/correcting any content generated by the MT software, and correcting major spelling and grammar errors.
Raw machine translation – We can provide you with 100% MT software generated output for you to adapt in-house to your own purposes. We tend to provide this service only to clients with in-house linguists or staff who are native speakers of the target languages.
Tender response MT – To help you respond to tenders in the short critical window you have, we can provide you with initial raw machine translation at a fast rate and minimal cost, to enable you to register your interest if appropriate. Later, we can provide you with light or full human MTPE, so you can respond to the tender.

Our MTPE process and approach

Andiamo! uses tried-and-tested MT software which produces a high-quality output that meets our standards.

We also integrate translation memory into our machine translation service. By taking this hybrid approach, we promote translation consistency (by ensuring that your content is translated in line with previous translations and glossaries), while offering lower service costs over time and reducing turnaround times.

Beyond technical and non-creative texts, the integration of MT with TM can be especially useful when processing a large volume of files to save valuable time.

Our MT Process

We assess your content to ensure it’s suitable for MT
Content is analysed in our translation memory software, utilising any memories we have for your organisation.
We then conduct the initial pre-translation of the content via machine translation, and with the use of TM software.
Machine translated output is then sent to our professional freelance translators to be post-edited. Your translator will work to improve translation quality, localisation, and ensure that your company-specific terminology is used accurately within your translated text.
The post-edited translation is then checked in-house by skilled linguists before being delivered to you.

MT language combinations

Not every language combination works to a high enough quality level to pass our quality control processes. Below is a list of languages that we offer for our machine translation service.

Arabic, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Turkish and Ukrainian.

If your required language is not listed here, please get in touch to see how we can help.

Beyond our machine translation services

Human Technical Translation

Explore our trusted human technical translation services for manual, datasheet, specification sheets, training and e-learning material, brochure, video transcript, website and marketing translation, software/app content and PowerPoint presentation translations.

Transcreation

We support clients with a huge range of creative translation projects, adapting the translations to ensure that your original source language message is maintained.

Typesetting

Ours is an end-to-end MTPE service, with a dedicated typesetting team committed to transforming your post-edited content into its final print and reader-ready format.

Subtitling

Our subtitling service helps to transform your video content into multilingual marketing tools that reach over language barriers and connect with your international audiences.

Why Andiamo?

Andiamo! has been supporting businesses like yours with translation and interpreting services for over 30 years.

Dedicated to accuracy and quality, we are audited internally and externally to maintain our ISO certifications (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 17100:2015, ISO 14001:2015) and to demonstrate our commitment to quality.

Our machine translation services (MTPE) offer you the assurance that skilled, experienced, and assessed linguists, who are specialised in your industry, are working to support your organisation. We also provide you with a dedicated project manager to offer a fully managed, end-to-end service.

Contact our team today to discuss your MTPE requirements.

08450 345677