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10 Free Translating Services Online

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We all come across foreign text online now and then. When you need to translate something quickly, you don't want the hassle of having to track down and register for a semi-decent online translator. So here are 10 quick, easy, reliable and, most importantly, free translating services online.

Google Translate

Google Translate is many web users' first port of call when they need to translate languages. It's free, pretty accurate and, like Google's other products, also very easy to use. It's also huge, allowing users to translate English to Afrikaans, Amharic, Chichewa and many more languages.

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Bing Translator

Microsoft has a translator, too, and it allows users to speak aloud for a translation into another language. You can choose whether to hear this in a male or female voice, and you can also search the web for it.

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SDL Free Translation

SDL Free Translation is known primarily for document translation, although that particular service isn't free. However, instant translation of shorter texts written in upwards of 45 languages is.

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Translate.com

Translate.com has dozens of languages, as well as support for both text and audio input and output. You can even ask a human to check the results, and they'll personally translate the first 100 words for free.

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OmegaT

Open-source OmegaT is a computer-assisted translation service based on AI memorization. Unicode (UTF-8) supports non-Latin alphabets (like Cyrillic, Mandarin and Arabic), and other features include spell-checking and compatibility with other apps.

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DeepL Translator

DeepL automatically provides sentence completion suggestions, which can help in more instances than you'd think. It also offers synonyms in a target language for each individual word translated.

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Babylon Online Translator

Babylon offers translation between more than 30 languages, and is known for its high level of accuracy. Like Translate.com, it also offers a human translation service (for a fee).

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PROMT Online Translator

Although its language coverage is relatively limited, PROMT has some great features. Automatic language detection, dictionary access, a virtual keyboard (for tablets) and downloadable software all make this site worth your while.

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Collins Dictionary Translator

Did you know this popular online dictionary also offers a translation service? It's pretty basic, and it relies of Microsoft's Bing Translation, but it supports translation between 30+ languages, and has a convenient copy button for the results.

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ImTranslator

There are a lot of choices when it comes to online translators, each with their own pros and cons. What if you could combine them all? That's exactly what ImTranslator does. Users are able to compare translations between PROMT, Bing and Google, and also reverse translate to the original language for accuracy.

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