@gehnibo Thanks Luca, Yes, I have a friend, that's definitely a great use-case. My friend Kapil uses it all the time for his emails with suppliers in China when he wants to gain their trust.
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@fotoflo@gehnibo Makes total sense! That Kapil just pioneered a great way to use this tool!
@gehnibo Hey there, I'm the maker of Wordzen, a Gmail plugin that drafts/edits/proofreads email. We've been considering getting into the translation space as well. Your comment validates the need. Gmail already provides some auto-translation, but it's certainly not 100% accurate, and I could see that important business communication would require professional human translators.
Texturner is a great tool tool for marketing, website translation, string translation, long romantic letters, diatribes on the subject of multi-lingual computers in a Post-Organic-Intelligence world, etc.... ( Disclosure: TexTurner is my side project )
Super interesting Slackbot, this would help a lot of international startups with their translations... Great! And thanks for adding to http://www.slackbotlist.com :D
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@fotoflo looks awesome, this is a great idea. particularly for folks exchanging ideas with others around the world
@eriktorenberg Thanks for asking Erik!
I was working on an International ad campaign for a client and my translations were taking forever. It was a chronic problem, until one day one of their developers shouted into their slack room: "Can everyone translate [this] into their respective languages" and the other employees from Brazil and Mexico and Russia all translated the dude's sentence.
So I thought, why isn't there a bot that does that? A friend of mine started a human translation company, so that night I created a little integration and pumped the output into their company's translation stack. That was 2 weeks ago. Now we support 48 languages.
@fotoflo@eriktorenberg Alex - I saw on your website that you have a network of 10,000 translators. I'm wondering -- who are you using on the back-end for translation? Might it be Gengo?
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