
We have a global user base and with that comes a language barrier problem. In a bid to cater to our brothers and sisters of different continents and languages, we began testing multilingual support on our IMS with the aid of Google Translate.
Since the launch of that service, We’ve successfully handled live chat sessions in over 15 different languages and counting. One other challenge has been that all our tutorials & videos are in English so non-English speakers have to struggle understanding, armed with just Google Translate.
Google Translate does OK but isn’t reliable enough
An easy alternative would be to auto-translate our tutorials using Google Translate but its a well known fact that auto translation tools aren’t quite there yet. We wouldn’t want to unknowingly call someone’s Father a Donkey thanks to Google Translate would We 🙂 ? While they might be manageable for conversations, they aren’t for tutorials so human intervention would be needed.
Hovatek Needs You!
We are looking for volunteers / members who are fluent in English and another language to help us with translating a few of our tutorials. By volunteering, You’ll be helping those who aren’t fortunate enough to understand English like You.
How will this work?
- Reach out to us by commenting below or sending an email to contact@hovatek.com
- Indicate which language You would like to help translate to
- We’ll send you some tutorials (transcripts) written in English and translated (using Google Translate) to the language You’ve chosen to help with
- All You have to do is compare and correct where Google Translate doesn’t get it right
We would greatly appreciate translators for
- French
- Arabic
- Hindi
- Spanish
- Portugese
- Russian
- Indonesian
46 comments on “We need volunteer translators”
Raymond Mtenga
August 25, 2018 at 4:47 pmI would help on swahili speakers
Hovatek
August 26, 2018 at 8:24 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
naskid
August 26, 2018 at 4:47 ami can speak english and hausa language
Hovatek
August 26, 2018 at 8:18 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Ehab Ouf
August 26, 2018 at 9:26 amI can help in arabic language
Hovatek
August 26, 2018 at 9:29 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Luckson Louis
August 26, 2018 at 5:27 pmHi everyone
I can translate to “Haitian creole”
Hovatek
August 26, 2018 at 5:57 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Hamadou
August 26, 2018 at 7:39 pmHello
I can translate to french
Hamadou
August 26, 2018 at 7:44 pmHello!
I can translate to French.
Hovatek
August 26, 2018 at 8:01 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Dr.Mosse
August 26, 2018 at 8:50 pmI can help in Arabic language
Hovatek
August 27, 2018 at 6:09 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
tony robinson
August 28, 2018 at 12:50 ami can help in french
Hovatek
August 28, 2018 at 6:07 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Joshua Maveke
August 28, 2018 at 4:43 pmI can help in swahili
Hovatek
August 30, 2018 at 9:51 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Prince Meedo
August 28, 2018 at 10:05 pmI would help to translate in arabic
Hovatek
August 30, 2018 at 9:52 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Dedik
August 30, 2018 at 9:35 am.I can help translate to indonesian
Hovatek
August 30, 2018 at 9:52 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Mohir Uddin
August 30, 2018 at 4:11 pmI can help to translate in Bengali language.
Hovatek
August 30, 2018 at 4:34 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
takie
August 30, 2018 at 10:32 pmihelp on translating on arabic
Hovatek
August 31, 2018 at 7:05 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
takie
September 2, 2018 at 1:38 pmkevein send me tutuorial iiknow 4 lenguage itry spain arab english and french
Wagdy Mostafa
September 1, 2018 at 5:08 amhi I would like to help translating to arabic
Hovatek
September 1, 2018 at 7:21 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Tsegay
September 1, 2018 at 5:50 amHi, i can help you in amharic
Hovatek
September 1, 2018 at 7:21 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Kelvin Essi
September 2, 2018 at 3:14 amI would help translate English into french.
Hovatek
September 2, 2018 at 8:12 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Babangida garba
September 3, 2018 at 1:24 pmI can help on Hausa language translation
Aminu
September 5, 2018 at 9:47 ami can translate english to hausa
Youcef Bouafia
September 5, 2018 at 11:06 amI can translate between three languages (english, french,, arabic)
Mahendra Singh Choudhary
September 8, 2018 at 11:16 amHi, I can help to translate in HINDI.
Thanks
Hovatek
September 10, 2018 at 12:57 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
jesus albarran
September 14, 2018 at 3:59 amI can help translating into spanish
Hovatek
September 14, 2018 at 7:44 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
amr
September 14, 2018 at 3:50 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Benwood
October 3, 2018 at 8:39 amAm going on English and Igbo
anders
October 4, 2018 at 10:16 ami can translate to french ; english or norwegian
Hovatek
October 4, 2018 at 6:52 pmThanks. We’ve sent You an email
rortiz2005
October 6, 2018 at 4:59 pmI can translate to spanish.
Hovatek
October 10, 2018 at 7:44 amThanks. We’ve sent You an email
Pavan Kumar
February 9, 2019 at 8:55 pmHai i can translate to telugu