Google Translate comes to the rescue

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Wed, 07/05/2008 - 20:57  2896  1 comment

I have a client with an office in the Netherlands, writes Nigel Harris, so when I get the records they include a file of PostBank statements, all in Dutch. In the past I have been using the well-known Babel Fish, a free online translation service, which does a pretty good job.

However, this year I was struggling to understand what Babel Fish was telling me and I came across the alternative Google Translate - another free service.

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Confidentiality Issues

PaulFeagan | Thu, 15/05/2008 - 13:22 | Permalink

These online translation tools are very useful. However, you should be aware that you have no control over what happens to your submitted data. Is it stored somewhere on the transaltion server? How secure is the server and could someone else access the data?
Unless you have some form of confidentiality agreement with the translation service provider, you could expose yourself or your clients to some risk. This is particulary so if you are translating large parts of a document as opposed to the odd sentence.

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