The "contribute a better translation" box stilll appears in my browser as part of the however bubble. Howevever, I almost never bother anymore, althouhg I responded enthusiastically at first.
The problem is that one gets rather peeved when the same sort of errors continue, no matter how many times one has contributed a correction. The feature ends up appearing to be nothing more than a rather abusive PR gimmick. If you want people to give of their time to better Google Translation, you will need to give them some meaningful positive feed back to persuade them that their contribution has not gone straigjht into the wasterbasket. On Dec 27, 2:57 am, dellfalconer wrote: > Same here. For example the German "Ich habe einen Ohrwurm" is broken > into 3 phrases by Google Translate and results in "I have a catchy > tune". However, the only correct way to translate it would be to do > something completely different, like "I can't get this song out of my > head." > > On Dec 18, 1:44 pm, MikeW wrote:> The word by wordtranslationis a waste of > time. Generates > > gobbledygook in all the phrases I've tried in French. > > > Also if you translate a single word, and specify an Englishtranslationby > > clicking "Use". Nothing happens. Is there any in- > > house testing or specification of this feature? It's getting more and > > more random. > > > On Dec 16, 8:36 pm, MikeW wrote: > > > > On one of them I got a chance to offer word-based alternatives, but > > > there was no way for me to say that the phrase overall had the words > > > in the wrong order. > > > > On Dec 15, 11:19 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > Mike is right. The old "Contributeabettertranslation" box is gone, > > > > at least on our texttranslation. We do intend to bring it back, as a > > > > way tocontributeabettertranslationfor the entire text, but in the > > > > meantime you can give usbetterfeedback by using the phrase-based > > > > alternatives, selectingbetterones, and when there aren't any good > > > > ones, putting in your own. > > > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > > Best, > > > > Josh Estelle > > > > Senior Software Engineer > > > > Google Translate > > > > > On Dec 15, 6:08 am, MikeW wrote: > > > > > > It's gone now, without any alternate way of suggesting an improved > > > > >translation. > > > > > > They need to make the feature available, but not in a way that > > > > > intrudes with trying to select/copy the translated text. > > > > > > On Dec 15, 2:49 pm, _jeremy wrote: > > > > > > > It's impossible to work with a larger body of text because the - > > > > > > extremely annoying - "Contributeabettertranslation" box which > > > > > > appears when you float over translated text move the text. There > > > > > > should be a way to disable this "feature". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
