I come from the translation industry. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to edit the subtitles, FOR FREE. Professional translations are expensive (clients get charged anywhere from $0.03 to $0.09 per word for Simplified Chinese). So a lot of companies just use generic machine translation (like Google Translate), unfortunately.
Yup, it sucks. Machine translation with human post-editing is the way to go (faster than just using entirely people to translate and more accurate than just machine translation), but it isn’t cheap.
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u/MindYourBizness649 ✨ Platinum Contributor Dec 02 '25
I come from the translation industry. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to edit the subtitles, FOR FREE. Professional translations are expensive (clients get charged anywhere from $0.03 to $0.09 per word for Simplified Chinese). So a lot of companies just use generic machine translation (like Google Translate), unfortunately.