Working with Language Service Providers and their Enterprise Clients

With the worldwide trend toward globalization and localization, the need for translation services has never been greater. Language Service Providers (LSPs) of all sizes strive to create high-quality translations to meet this growing demand within an increasingly-competitive marketplace. The emerging use of Machine Translation (MT) promises to revolutionize the translation industry by simultaneously increasing productivity and decreasing costs, giving adopters of MT technology a competitive edge. Employing MT technology, however, can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Complicating matters even further is the fact that despite significant technological advances in recent years, translation quality of MT output varies widely among domains, target languages, and MT engines. Freely-available online MT engines, not only suffer from a varying quality of translation output but also from a fundamental lack of data security.

Safaba Customizes Machine Translation

Customizing Machine Translation to client-specific data can result in significant gains in translation quality. Safaba’s solutions leverage existing client-specific resources and state-of-the-art MT technology to provide LSPs and their clients with high-quality low-cost fully-automated translations. Safaba contracts with multiple MT companies to apply the best-quality MT engines available to the client’s translation data to create a customized MT system that produces translations for the client that exceed the quality of the translations produced by a generic, uncustomized MT engine. Safaba employs a software-as-a-service model to offer these secure MT solutions to LSPs and their clients with low upfront and ongoing costs.

Safaba Integrates Machine Translation into Existing Translation Workflows

With Safaba, LSPs can harness the benefits of Machine Translation (MT) to become more productive than ever before. The customized MT solutions created for the clients of LSPs can be seamlessly plugged into existing LSP translation workflows. Adding Safaba’s customized MT solutions to translation workflows can result in tangible benefits for both the professional translator and the LSP: post-editing high-quality MT output relieves professional translators of translating from scratch, making their tasks more editorial and allowing them to handle larger volumes of work at lower costs for the LSP.