Announcing Lingos.cc
Lingos.cc is a new web-based translation site that myself and my business partner, Ian McIntosh, are launching.
This screenshot of the homepage should sum up the functionality:
You enter text on the homepage and click translate. A real live native spanish speaker translates the text in under 24 hours. Then you receive the completed translation via email.
Automation and the “True Cost” of Translation
With Lingos.cc, we wanted to charge as close as possible to the “true cost” of translation. The “true cost” of translation is the amount paid directly to the translator for the time spent translating.
Distributing documents to translators, managing translators, sending prices to customers, and managing invoices are all expenses that have nothing to do with the “true cost” of translation.
The Lingos.cc web application automatically handles all of these tasks. As a result, we are offering the lowest price available online from a translation agency.
Time is Money
Bad translations are everywhere. Signs, menus, brochures, web pages, and product descriptions are poorly translated all over the world.
The reason these translations are bad isn’t because people aren’t willing to pay for quality translations. A quality translation costs just a few cents per word.
Translations are bad because working with a translation agency is time-consuming. Time is spent sending sample documents, receiving quotes, discussing quotes with colleagues, negotiating a final price, and sending the full document to the agency. All this lost time adds up and makes getting a human translation more costly than it should be.
At Lingos.cc, we don’t give quotes, we charge a flat-rate per word. We don’t accept documents, you just paste your text on our homepage. We don’t give far away deadlines, your translation will be completed in 24 hours.
Details
To assure the quality of our translations, hand-picked proofreaders read over and correct every translation we deliver.
Distributing the text to translators and proofreaders is automated.
We only support english to spanish right now, but we will be expanding to more languages soon.