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Andrew Jiang
@andrewjiang · Cofounder, CEO at Sentio
Hi everyone,
We built Babel Mail after having to deal with the hassle of existing translation services, which require you to send your text, get it back, and then paste it into your email before sending. With Babel Mail, you can write in your language, send it off, and we'll automatically translate your email on the way to your recipient. Replies get transl… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Clever, @andrewjiang! I can see this being valuable for customer support but it could also be packaged into a "pen pal" product to enable people across cultures and languages to communicate. This would be fun to experiment. Riffing here:
1) Once a week users are prompted to answer a specific question (e.g. What did you do today? What was your favorite c… See more
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Andrew Jiang
@andrewjiang · Cofounder, CEO at Sentio
What an interesting use case @rrhoover! We've had at least a couple requests for an API to connect with existing messaging / forum / communication services, but that is definitely the most fun use case I've heard to date.
I built Babel Mail for startups and small business owners looking to do business in other countries (finding partners and manufacturers, … See more
Ben Munson
@munsonbh · Design Director at Stop, Breath & Think
Are you using different translators for each direction? For instance English goes through a Chinese native speaker to China and Chinese goes through an English native speaker back to USA?
Do you need any more translators? I know someone…
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Andrew Jiang
@andrewjiang · Cofounder, CEO at Sentio
Hi @munsonbh!
Usually, we pass the translations through 3 people. In your example, we have 1 person who is more fluent in English than Chinese do the initial pass through, then a person who is more fluent in Chinese than English do the second pass through, then a member of our team do a final look through. If you know people who would be great translators, … See more