Your Blog Translated To 10 Languages For Free

AlfaBetic is a web translation service that claims it will expose your blog to 842 potential new readers by translating your content to 10 of the world’s most popular languages.

The first phase of AlfaBetic’s translation process is similar to what’s offered by Google Translate and other web translation sites - a rough, computer generated word for word translation. Once the rough version is obtained, AlfaBetic gets its paid human translators to proof read and make sure everything fits. According to AlfaBetic, the whole process takes only a few minutes.

Before you think this is too good to be true, the company does actually earn revenue from the whole process. AlfaBetic controls advertising appearing on each publisher’s translated pages keeping a portion of the advertising revenue. Additionally, they claim they will reduce costs in the future by making their automatically translated text more accurate using “statistical machine translation”.

Some problems may exist with this setup. It will most likely be tougher to monetize a Spanish or Italian translation then an English translation. Additionally, translation quality is an issue here - publishers may want to confirm the quality of translation of their website before they decide to allow it to exist in a new language - but on the flip side, it’s free!

Overall a very interesting concept - will be cool to follow this through and see how it develops. For further detail and to read an interview with the founder of AlfaBetic read this TechCrunch article.