It’s too bad that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of British Columbia, Canada, otherwise known as the RCMP, don’t know that we could be helping them with their current dilemma: French translation of its news releases – or rather, lack thereof. Recently the RCMP website has removed automated French translation of news releases by Google translator, and now French Canadians can no longer get instant translation from English to French for any given news release. They must currently wait several days for a service called Public Works Canada to send back their official French news release translation.
There are several ways to look at this. French translation of news releases can be of urgent importance, and necessary for instant translation – like news releases about severe, dangerous weather, or a lost or missing child. However, Google’s machine translation is extremely flawed. Automated Canadian French translation of news releases provided by Google translator is simply horrible; even indecipherable at times. It is understandable why the automated French website translation service was scorned by French language authorities. Still, any Canadian news release is constitutionally demanded to be available in both English and French. It’s a basic right of French Canadians to be able to read their own news releases – but right now, Canadians in British Columbia who speak French are without reasonable French translation of RCMP news releases. Furthermore, RCMP is currently paying a professional translation company $3,000 a day to have the news releases translated, until they can find permanent, full time professional document translation. Even then, the news translation service has a three day lag.
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If only they knew we provide fast and professional French translation service – and for nowhere near $3,000 a day. Actually, we offer the lowest translation rates of any global professional translation service, whether for French website translation or any other language translation service. Not only that, but because we have over 5,000 translators worldwide, and many French translators, we can provide professional French news release translation very quickly. Even for individuals who don’t want to wait two or three days to read a news release, this is a good option.
Canadian-French translation service by Tomedes within the same day, or even a couple hours, for a fraction of the cost that the RCMP is currently paying, versus waiting three days for an official Canadian-French news release translation of what will be old news by then? When you weigh the options, it becomes clear why it is such as shame that the RCMP is not making full use of their options – even if only temporarily. Hopefully, individual French-Canadian readers will think to use affordable, professional French translation service, like us, to translate the important news releases for them, until something permanent is decided.
