That's exactly it. We had an HF quality translation nine months ago, but we want to release a professional quality one. Plus, translation really does take a long time, professionals can cut that time by having large teams and of course, getting paid to do the job. If we could find a way to translate games full time, we could easily put out one a year.
It would help if the "translators" on the web actually worked right. Or if someone created a device that you just scan over a line of text and it pops up the translated version (that would be awesome)
That would be awesome. It's basically impossible, though. Getting a computer to understand natural language to any extent is extraordinarily difficult all by itself, and accurate machine translations are basically impossible.
Well, it tries, and for basic things you can usually get something approximating an accurate sentence, but there's two important things about it. First, all Google translations work primarily based on the translation suggestions humans have suggested, making it more a crowd sourced translation than a machine translation, and second, the grammar is still usually wrong. I get a lot of people who volunteer to work with us as translators who send back jibberish spat out by Google. We can always tell when that happens, because the first thing we do when we get a bad translation is see if it's 95+% matching Google's translation. Romance languages might be a little easier, but not much.
Tbh. I wouldn't suggest using a translator for full sentences anyway especially not for story sentences.
I'll post details when they're decided on.
My cat broke my laptop, but no, I keep backups on three different machines plus cloud storage. I'm just not able to edit or translate at work until I have my laptop up and running again, so I've been working more slowly the last few days.
