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Text translation site for Chinese↔English, Chinese↔Japanese, Chinese↔Malay, Chinese↔Vietnamese, English↔Japanese, English→Korean, English↔Malay, English→Tagalog, English→Thai, English↔Vietnamese, Indonesian→Chinese, Indonesian→English, Japanese↔Vietnamese, and Malay↔Vietnamese.

Apertium is a machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs, but recently expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs (such as English-Catalan). The platform provides a language-independent machine translation engine, tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair, and linguistic data for 21 language pairs, with more under development.

The platform also includes cell phone applications, blog plugins, web services and several graphical user interfaces. Apertium may translate plain text, web sites or documents without loss of formatting.

Free language translator.

Web-based software for collaborative creation of dictionaries.

Dict.org is a hosted dictionary. It is based on the GPL software GCIDE.

Fantasdic is a DICT client. It is multi-platform and written in the Ruby programming language. It retrieves definitions from the internet via the DICT protocol instead of from a file on the local hard drive.

Free and Open Source software for translators

gedit-pomode is a plugin for convenient editing of PO files in the gedit text editor.

Global Translator is a free and open source Wordpress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in the following different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.

Glossmaster is the multi-lingual terminology tool developed for ANLoc, the African Network for Localization.

Glossmaster contains a core list of 2500 information technology terms that have been selected from a wide variety of software applications originally written in English, with definitions for each term in English, as well as other information that will help clarify the underlying technical concepts.

GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

This is the Spanish dictionary for use with the aspell spell checker. NOTE: You must have aspell installed first.

gtranslator is a GNOME2 application intended to make editing PO files
easy for language translators.

Image Localization Manager helps you to streamline your image localization process by presenting all the information needed for translating and editing image files in the same window. We hope you love the image preview feature!

This is a Spanish dictionary that works with "ispell." It is not a stand-alone language package, you must have ispell installed before using this.

jDictionary has an intuitive user interface and is able to upgrade itself, upgrade its plugins, and provide news and information about new plugins.

Kartouche is a web-based translation tool - it allows translations to be submitted via a browser-based interface. Kartouche's sister application, Omnivore, stores the completed translations in a searchable store to which comments and corrections can be added.

Kyfiethu is a web-based Welsh translation workflow tool. It is based on Kartouche.

Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta") is a platform for open source application translation on the internet. It lets anybody help translate their favorite open source application into their favorite spoken language. Launchpad supports most localizable open-source applications.

GNU/Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS is a remaster of PCFluxboxOS built for translators.

Moses is a statistical machine translation system that allows you to automatically train translation models for any language pair. All you need is a collection of translated texts (parallel corpus).

The Okapi Framework is a set of interface specifications, format definitions, components and applications that provides an environment to build interoperable tools for the different steps of the translation and localization process.

OmegaT+ is a free Computer Assisted/Aided Translation tool used by translators, localization engineers, and other language professionals.

The OTE is an open source project developing language translation and dictionary tools for the internet community. This prototype system currently supports Dutch to English translations.

Translation service for software developers: easily find translations into many different languages for interface texts used by other software

TM stands for TranslationManager/2. TM/2 originates from the IBM TranslationManager tool and has been made available to the open source community.

TranslationManager/2 is a computer-assisted translation system (CAT) that automates repetitive tasks, freeing the professional translator to attend to the finer points of translation that require the judgement of an expert.

PC-LOS-trans is now Tuxtrans.
A desktop system for translators created on the basis of the gnu/linux distribution Ubuntu 10.04.
Tuxtrans is a full fledged desktop system meant as a replacement for the widely known OS. But it is not just an operating system, it is an OS including a collection of software applications which allows a translator to do his/her job most efficiently and in line with the latest standards.

Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs.

Pootle is a web portal that simplifies the translation process. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows volunteer contribution.

Qt Linguist is a tool for adding translations to Qt applications.

An open-source translation memory tool.

Transifex is a scalable localization platform with a focus on integrating with the existing workflow of both translators and developers. It aims to make it simple for content providers to receive quality translations from big translation communities, no matter where the project is hosted.

A community project where open source software is internationalised and localised. Translatewiki.net is where Wikipedia is localised, this results in a community with localisation in over 150 active languages.

Translatewiki.net does localise other software as well when the software is freely licensed and when there is active support for the internationalisation of the software and when localisations are updated in a timely fashion

Vertimus is an open source web tool for managing workflow for translations. Each translation has a status which changes at each step, and users can create an account, book any translation and communicate with a team. An example of Vertimus in action can be found at http://gnomefr.traduc.org/suivi. The first release provides support for localization between English and French.

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.

The Wordforge Off-line Localization Editor, previously known as Pootling, is an intelligent, platform-independent offline localization tool developed specifically to allow translators to get the most out of the XLIFF file format.

The Worldwide Lexicon enables people to create translation communities around any website, blog or topic. WWL combines automatic machine translation with people, who edit and improve machine translations.