Can somebody recommend a good third party external translator?

Can somebody recommend a good third party external translator for us, for TeamSite?

Thank you,
Jim

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SDL used to have a connector that worked with earlier versions of TeamSite, but they are a competitor now in some product lines and that connector doesn't work on newer versions. However, SDL has an API that you can program to, and use workflow to send and receive translations. I'm doing that with them currently.

Another company that I know of is Lionbridge. I believe they have a pretty decent API as well, but I've never used them so I can't give you a better review.

Migrateduser

Hi,

Am interested to know the connector provided by SDL. Can you provide additional details? like documentation or the APIs
When you get time if you can drop a message on how you have done would be helpful.

I am trying to implement the same for my POC.

Thanks in Advance
Shankar

Rick Poulin

I, too, have integrated SDL's translation services with a TS workflow. SDL provides a Java API (as a .jar) that you can use in your code. They require your data to be sent in a specific XML format and you have to work with them to define an exact information exchange protocol that's tied to the data types you want to translate. The whole process is asynchronous on their end (you send data and then you need to ping their server periodically to check if the output is ready). On their end, the data goes into a CMS where they manage their translation process and they do something similar to a "submit" when it's ready, which is what your side is waiting on.

Migrateduser

Thanks for your response, shall give a try.