Comprehensive List of Free Online Translation Services

Translation is the accurate and complete expression of one language in another. A good translation does not involve a literal word-for-word translation, but rather conveys all the meanings of the original text as smoothly as possible according to the habits of the Chinese language. This type of translation is usually done by human translators. Machine online translation services can also achieve mutual translation between different languages to some extent, though the results are not always satisfactory. Here, I will introduce some common free online translation services for your reference.

Google Online Translation - After an upgrade and update, Google's online translation service supports mutual translation between more than 20 languages and Chinese. It can also automatically identify the language of the source text, making it a comprehensive online translation service.

Windows Live Translation - The online translation service provided by Microsoft supports fewer languages for translation into Chinese compared to Google, with only English being translatable into Chinese. It offers mutual translation between English and other major languages.

Yahoo Babel Fish Translation - Yahoo's Babel Fish online translation supports mutual translation between Chinese and English, as well as Chinese and Japanese. It also supports mutual translation among more than ten other languages. It can translate paragraphs, sentences, phrases, words, and even entire web pages.

Systran Translation - SYSTRAN is a leading supplier of high-quality language translation software. Its translation products have been selected by major portal sites (such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.) as their translation tools. SYSTRAN's products include paid desktop and server versions, as well as free online translation services.

WorldLingo Translation - Although it supports mutual translation between more than ten languages and Chinese, the free web page translation is limited to 500 words. To access all services, a monthly fee of $4.95 is required.

Infoseek Japanese Translation - Provides comprehensive Japanese translation, supporting mutual translation between Japanese and major languages including Chinese.

E Ciba Word Translation - The network version of Kingsoft Ciba, providing free online word translation services. Kingsoft collaborated with Google to release a desktop version of Google Ciba.

Youdao Dictionary Word Translation - An online English-Chinese dictionary launched by Youdao Search. This product also provides a desktop version of the English-Chinese dictionary with a small file size.

Baidu Dictionary - Baidu's word translation service, which actually uses the Dr.eye Yidiandong dictionary's functions. It includes Chinese translations and example sentences, but no pronunciation.

HaiCi Translation - Also an online English-Chinese dictionary that includes example sentences in its translations.

Foreign Language Space-Time Online Translation, supporting specialized vocabulary translations in fields such as aviation and electronics.

Cambridge Online Translation, divided into automatic and manual translation. Automatic translation is very slow, and the webpage translation integrates Google Online Translation, which is not recommended. Manual translation is on a paid basis. If you know of any other free online translation service websites, please leave a comment to supplement this list.

(Note: Compiled based on Moonlight Blog)