I'm a translator and a UI/UX designer. In the past, when I was using Microsoft Word to translate books, I felt it was very cumbersome and inconvenient. Taking a deeper look, I discovered that it's because Word wasn't designed for translating.
Afterwards, I discovered computer-assisted-translation software or CAT tools, but I learned quickly that companies for this type of software hadn't considered the needs of the book translators, and so I decided then and there with Vincent to create our own software. In the process, we got acquainted with many translators, instructors and project managers. The content, writing styles and situations for translating among these different people are not the same, which gave us plenty of valuable ideas.
More than 90% of Termsoup's functions are designed based on everyone's feedback. Right now, there's also a lot of technical translators who are using our software. At present, a lot of translators tell us that Termsoup has made their work and lives better, and this news makes me so ecstatic!
As a website designer, I care a lot about the user experience. My goal is to create a concise and easy-to-use software, and even more importantly, my goal is to make our users happy. I look forward to building up a mechanism for translators to help each other and make our community much more robust and stronger!
A big motivator for me starting Termsoup was to speed up the expansion of knowledge from different languages around the world, and help more people benefit from cross-cultural knowledge. When I walk into a bookstore and I see a book that was translated using Termsoup, I feel very moved!
Through the introduction of Taiwan Wiki, we're very honored to work with The Wikipedia Library, allowing even more active editors from Wiki to use Termsoup and increasing the spread of knowledge! This is a very meaningful milestone!
There's a Termsoup user living in the United Kingdom who likes knitting a lot. She once sent us a big postcard and two hand-knit wool hats! In her postcard, she wrote that Termsoup has helped to raise her productivity and allowed her to have much more time to do the things she likes, making her life more fulfilling.
The greatest motivator for me running and developing Termsoup is the rapid spread of knowledge and helping translators create a more humanized work environment.
