Russian translator

September 16, 2005 8:13 AM

What's a good Russian translator that will render the entirety of a large web page?

I'm looking to view Russian web forums in English. I finally broke down and paid for the $19.95 WorldLingo.com translator, but now instead of seeing the first 5K I now get to view 5K bite-size morsels (big pageload to get to next morsel). This truly sucks for long threads, and makes text searching impossible, so I'm thinking of asking for my money back.

So what's an economical way to see an entire Russian page rendered in English? Continue looking for plug-ins or get a dedicated program? I don't have a budget for $99 programs and it's not for business.

posted by shannymara to Writing & Language (8 answers total)

Response by poster: Clarification: This is for simple browser or cut & paste viewing (either is fine), not for server-side type stuff.
posted by shannymara at 8:14 AM on September 16, 2005

Try Google translation: it can do an entire webpage. It seems to keep translating if you follow links in the same site.
posted by curtm at 8:51 AM on September 16, 2005

Russian is not a valid option there.
posted by zek at 9:13 AM on September 16, 2005

Oops.

This isn't as cool as the Google one, but it does do Russian-to-English.
posted by curtm at 10:19 AM on September 16, 2005

Babel Fish!
posted by blue_beetle at 11:30 AM on September 16, 2005

All of those use the same engine (Systran) so it's mainly an interface choice between those three.
posted by abcde at 12:31 PM on September 16, 2005

Would you have a Net-based plumber fix your leaking toilet or a web-based mechanic fix your car? Of course not. Translation is a highly complkex process that cannot even vaguely be done by a machine. If you want a halway decent translation, you are going to have to pay a professional to do it. Otherwise you will get absolute crap. There are still a lot of things that cannot be done on the web. Translation is one.
posted by TheRaven at 2:00 PM on September 16, 2005

TheRaven: it sounds like shannymara is happy with the translation, but he just wants more then 5k at a time.
posted by delmoi at 1:16 AM on September 19, 2005