What You Need from Express Translation

For those who need high-quality business, legal, or technical translations on a regular basis, you're used to the process of submitting it to your translation firm and giving them time to make the translated document perfect for your needs. You expect to wait weeks, sometimes months, for a high-quality translation because you know it will come back as smooth and clearly stated in the new language as it was in the original document. After all, that's why you hire a professional translation service instead of relying on freelancers to section up the work or robots to translate roughly with no context. Whether you need translation for cultural relevance, legally binding contracts, or even lyrical conformity, talented human translators are the only option. But what about last minute projects?

When You Need Translation Fast

In an ideal world, you would always have every document ready for translation within a reasonable amount of time before you needed a translated copy, but the real world is more variable than that. It is understood that sometimes changes, negotiations, and opportunities occur later than your original translation plans accounted for and you need a document translated fast. There are a lot of ways to get an express translation, but in many cases you will be sacrificing quality for speed in a way that could damage your foreign relations by seriously decreasing the quality of your translated documents.

The Risk of Automatic Translation

It can be tempting to fall back on an automatic translation system, but robots have no sense of context or cultural relevance. They can't make your phrasing elegant or properly translate legal concepts across languages, regions, and cultures. If you don't speak the language you're translating to, then you may not be able to identify a blatant difference in quality between the rest of your documents and the last minute changes. Even worse, sometimes automatic translations are wrong about word choice or grammar and if this happened in your translation, you could not detect it.

Choosing an Express Translation Service

Having established that auto-translate programs are great but not for business documents, that leaves you with finding a translation agency that offers the kind of express service you're looking for. It's important to investigate the methods, results, and customer reviews for your potential options as these will tell you what kind of product you'll get back and how fast their individual definitions of 'express' are. There are many different styles among translating companies, ranging from a proof-reading and editing chain to sharing out sections of the document among multiple translators for parallel processing. Every method has pros and cons and it's important to know what you're getting into. To find the highest quality contextual translation, you'll want to ensure a few things:

Style Matching

For high-volume, high-speed translating agencies, often the techniques used to go fast have a very similar effect to automatic translation. For anyone who has been using long-form, style consistent translations services, this the speed techniques will create an unusual choppiness to the translated documents. This is because rather than reading over the original piece and matching the style both intended and achieved in related documents, many agencies will simply section up the work to be translated between several translators who work in parallel then reconstruct the final product into a Frankenstein-translated document. The difference in style, tone, and even word choice from paragraph to paragraph can vary, creating a disjointed reading experience.

Smooth Content Integration

In many cases, express translation is needed due to an edit of an already translated document. Naturally, you don't want the edit or addition to stand out unnecessarily in the final translated text, you will need a translation service that can match not just the style, but the content comprehension of the rest of your document. If you, for instance, had a contract translated by your firm's professional legal translator but now need to add a last-minute clause, you need the addition to be just as accurately translated as the rest of the contract. It must be consistent, comprehensible, and legally binding in both languages. This means that your express translation must come from a service that offers the professional knowledge you require in both the original and intended cultures.

Wording Consistency

The word consistency in your translation is surprisingly important, and one of the reasons to avoid an automatic translator. Just like in English, if one or two words are used too many times in a text, it starts to stand out. On the other side of this, a single continuous document tends to have a flow and certain phrases are used as a theme throughout. If your addition, edit, or new document doesn't match the linguistic flow of the rest of your reports or contracts, it will stand out. This is a particular problem with parallel translating because the multiple translators don't know which words the others are choosing, so consistency is not just elusive, it's near impossible. In most cases, it is more valuable to have a single translator or a small team working closely together for each of your professional translation needs, no matter how last minute.

Efficient Service

Finally, you still need that document fast. The word 'express' in a translation service does not effectively guarantee service within a specific amount of time. Make sure to investigate or get a clear quote about how long you will need to wait for the translated correction, addition, or document. In some cases, a service advertised as express can still take over a week to complete.

You have always prided yourself on providing your international business partners with the highest quality translated documents and you certainly don't want to stop that fine tradition because of a last minute change. Teck Language Solutions offers an express translation service in which one dedicated and highly skilled translator to create a smooth, context-rich, and continuous translation in as little as 24 hours. For more information about express translation, please contact us today.

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Teck Language Solutions Inc. with seat in Miami, FL, offers professional translations in numerous language combinations, including all languages of the EU and all major languages. More information: www.teck-translations.com

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