The speed of machine translation varies depending on the many factors such as the size of the engine, the language pair (more complex languages such as Chinese and Japanese have additional processing requirements) and the format of the document being translated.

With Language Studio™ machine translation speed can be configured to match your requirements and ranges 3,000 words per minute upwards. Some of our customers are translating more than 1.2 billion words per day. Putting that in context, if the average translator

While estimates vary, the general consensus is that the total number of professional translators in the whole world is around 300,000. If all of these translators were to work on the same day and translated at an average speed of 2,500 words per day, the total combined output per day would be 750 million words. Thus, all professional translators combined would deliver an output volume that is the equivalent to just 75% of the daily output from one of Omniscien Technologies' larger customers.