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Translation service for software developers: easily find translations into many different languages for interface texts used by other software

Opensource machine language translation tool.

The OTE is an open source project developing language translation and dictionary tools for the internet community. This prototype system currently supports Dutch to English translations.

Online machine translation tool.

GNU/Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS is a remaster of PCFluxboxOS built for translators.

The Translate Toolkit is designed by localisers for localisers. Its aim is to make localisation easier and of higher quality. The toolkit can convert between various different translation formats and makes it possible to stay in one format across all localisation tasks.

Pootle is a web portal that simplifies the translation process. It allows online translation, work assignment, gives statistics and allows volunteer contribution.

Web-based software for collaborative creation of dictionaries.

A collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual resource in every language, with lexicological, terminological and thesaurus information.

Qt Linguist is a tool for adding translations to Qt applications.

Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs.

gtranslator is a GNOME2 application intended to make editing PO files
easy for language translators.

Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta") is a platform for open source application translation on the internet. It lets anybody help translate their favorite open source application into their favorite spoken language. Launchpad supports most localizable open-source applications.

The Wordforge Off-line Localization Editor, previously known as Pootling, is an intelligent, platform-independent offline localization tool developed specifically to allow translators to get the most out of the XLIFF file format.

Ini Translator is a utility program to translate ini-style language files, with a look and feel reminiscent of poEdit.

Vertimus is an open source web tool for managing workflow for translations. Each translation has a status which changes at each step, and users can create an account, book any translation and communicate with a team. An example of Vertimus in action can be found at http://gnomefr.traduc.org/suivi. The first release provides support for localization between English and French.

Dict.org is a hosted dictionary. It is based on the GPL software GCIDE.

GNOME Dictionary is a DICT client written in C by Emmanuele Bassi and others. It is part of the open-source GNOME desktop software suite, inside the gnome-utils meta-package. It allows users of GNOME to look up words on dictionary sources.

GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for misspelled words.

Hunspell is the default spell checker of OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird.

GNOME Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation and synchronization.

Kartouche is a web-based translation tool - it allows translations to be submitted via a browser-based interface. Kartouche's sister application, Omnivore, stores the completed translations in a searchable store to which comments and corrections can be added.

Fantasdic is a DICT client. It is multi-platform and written in the Ruby programming language. It retrieves definitions from the internet via the DICT protocol instead of from a file on the local hard drive.

Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress 2.5+. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information. It allows you to edit translations side by side, detects and filters by language automatically when a visitor comes to your site and automatically generates semantic information for links and content blocks.

Global Translator is a free and open source Wordpress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in the following different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.

Glossmaster is the multi-lingual terminology tool developed for ANLoc, the African Network for Localization.

Glossmaster contains a core list of 2500 information technology terms that have been selected from a wide variety of software applications originally written in English, with definitions for each term in English, as well as other information that will help clarify the underlying technical concepts.

Bitext2tmx is a cross-platform Java application to align bitext (of a corresponding original text and its translation) and generate a TMX translation memory for use in computer-assisted translation.

PC-LOS-trans is now Tuxtrans.
A desktop system for translators created on the basis of the gnu/linux distribution Ubuntu 10.04.
Tuxtrans is a full fledged desktop system meant as a replacement for the widely known OS. But it is not just an operating system, it is an OS including a collection of software applications which allows a translator to do his/her job most efficiently and in line with the latest standards.

Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in realtime or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features.

Text translation site for Chinese↔English, Chinese↔Japanese, Chinese↔Malay, Chinese↔Vietnamese, English↔Japanese, English→Korean, English↔Malay, English→Tagalog, English→Thai, English↔Vietnamese, Indonesian→Chinese, Indonesian→English, Japanese↔Vietnamese, and Malay↔Vietnamese.

WPML is a WordPress plugin that can turn any WordPress or WordPressMU site into a full featured multilingual content management system.

TM stands for TranslationManager/2. TM/2 originates from the IBM TranslationManager tool and has been made available to the open source community.

TranslationManager/2 is a computer-assisted translation system (CAT) that automates repetitive tasks, freeing the professional translator to attend to the finer points of translation that require the judgement of an expert.

POEditor is an online localization tool that provides a very simple user interface and many helpful features for developers and translators.
It works with many file types such as .po, .pot, .strings, .xml, .resx, .xsls, which you can use to manage your translation projects.
Features such as the POEditor translation memory or its reference language option make it one of the best options for software translation.
It is free for open source projects and limited for others.

This is a Spanish dictionary that works with "ispell." It is not a stand-alone language package, you must have ispell installed before using this.

This is the Spanish dictionary for use with the myspell spellchecker which is currently used within OpenOffice.org and the mozilla spellchecker. It is based on ispell dictionary put together by Santiago Rodriguez and Jesus Carretero.