Ackuna platform provides app developers free crowd-sourced translations

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With the explosive growth of app downloads worldwide, more and more developers are in need of translation technology in order to bring their products to users around the globe.

Ackuna provides just this, offering expert translations from professionals at the paid level, or crowd-sourced translations as an entry point for free. A definite upgrade over machine translations that spit out word for word translations that often times end up either incoherent or downright hilarious.

Ackuna even has a bad translator site that shows how after 35 translations, Bing somehow flips “You must not commit adultery” back into “Thoust needs potato.”

“Ackuna started out as a proofreader platform where people got a free machine translation, and then if they wanted a more professional proofreading, we would assign it to a professional translator, but overall, there was nothing too exciting about that,” explains Matt Bramowicz, Ackuna’s VP of Marketing.

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