Last year more than 5 million translations were made on the web www.itzultzailea.eus-kadi.net, a tool that the Basque Government has. There is the possibility of translating from Basque to Spanish, from Spanish to Basque and from English to Basque.

The automatic translator was launched in 2012 and has recently presented the version improved by the Basque Government. The tool used in the network has been adapted for mobile devices. The Android and ios operating system allows users to download the application and use an automatic translator. Without the need to insert text into the phone, issue the text orally and it will be the mobile phone itself who writes it. Then he will come back.

So it seems like this translator is a tremendous pagotxa. However, it has the ability to translate short texts and web pages. And the most important note: without the subsequent correction of the human being, these translations are not valid, the perfect translation (if ever achieved) is far away. The Government has made the following note: “Consider it as a support tool and bear in mind that the outcome ALWAYS has to be monitored,” but unfortunately we see the unintelligible translations that have only passed through that sieve. The last one, the letter we received in Argia, from a well-known printer house. To know what he meant, there was no choice but to read the Spanish text.