What are the advantages of Machine Translation over Human Translation?

1. It gives an instant idea of the meaning of document or email content.

2. It serves as a bridge between people of different language groups that is available 24 hours a day.

3. Advances in machine translation technology is improving the quality of online translation every year.

4. The market for machine translation is now approximately $75 million per annum and is expected to grow to $300 million by 2008. Transclick may increase this estimate significantly. The market for web site localization is now approximately $750 million and is expected to grow to over $1.4 billion by 2008.

5. Machine translation is expected to be among the 100 most important technologies in the 21st century (Gartner Group)

6. It is still much cheaper and faster to use machine translation for the first draft of a translation and then post-edit a document using a human translator than to use human translator from start to finish.

7. There will be enormous commercial, political and social benefits as millions of people are able to transact and communicate cross-language borders online with millions of other people in real-time without the need for a human translation intermediary. The potential for melting language barriers online is staggering and someday this "language conversion utility" must change the world of ecommerce in fundmental ways that will accelerate globalization---globalization with a human face since humans will use machine translation as a way to broadcast their ecommerce, political, religious and humanitarian message to a global target audience that does not speak the language of the broadcaster. When you communicate, you will be understood in foreign lands.