Spanish Translation Software

Translating Spanish

Spanish Accent Characters on your Keyboard

 The Spanish language uses the Roman alphabet with the added symbols,  ch, ll, ñ, and rr . The tilde (~) placed over the n ( ñ ) indicates the pronunciation ni, as in English pinion. The acute accent (´) is used to make clear which syllable of a word is to be stressed when the regular rules of stress are not followed. The acute accent is also employed to distinguish between homonyms, as in sé ( "I know" ) and se ( "self" ). To learn how to set up your computer to Type Spanish characters on your keyboard visit our Spanish Keyboard page.

Spanish Dialects

There are a number of Spanish dialects but there is a standard and the accepted Standard Spanish Dialect is Castilian. Systran uses this Spanish standard dialect for the translation. There are several important differences in pronunciation between Castilian and major dialects of Latin American Spanish. In the former, c before e and i, and z before a, o, and u, are pronounced th, as in English think ; in the latter, they are sounded as s in English see. Moreover, the alphabetical symbol ll in Castilian is pronounced as lli in English billion ; but in Latin American Spanish, as y in English you. On the whole, however, the differences between the Spanish dialects of Europe and of Latin America with reference to pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are relatively minor.

Look in a Spanish-English dictionary and you'll find that many Spanish words beginning with E are cognates of English words: exterior (exterior), estado (state) and emplear (employ), to give a few examples.

One thing to keep in mind about Spanish is that there are two forms of the verb "to be" : estar, which means a relatively temporary state, and ser, which means a relatively permanent condition and which is also used before a predicate noun. Reflexive verbs often perform the same function in Spanish that passive verbs do in English. Because the inflection of the Spanish verb indicates person very clearly, subject pronouns are not necessary. A another peculiarity of Spanish is the use of an inverted question mark (¿) at the beginning of a question and of an inverted exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation.

Spanish Translation Software

English to Spanish Conversion
Spanish to English Conversion

Systran has been the leader in translation software development for the past 30 years. Systran actually holds patents for their translation engine so no other translation software has these same features. Learn more about Systran Translation Software and which translator will best meet your translation needs.

Spanish to English Translation

While you are working with Spanish language you will see words that seem familiar but do not assume you know the word. For example the word "Actual" in English means "real" but in Spanish it means "current". Some words just look close enough to the English word that you think you can figure it out but again it can be a false friend, for example "fábrica" looks like "fabric" but it really means "factory" in Spanish.

English to Spanish Translation

The first thing you will notice in English to Spanish translation is the volume of text is about 25% more words. In English one vowel can have different sounds, there are 13 in all, for example the "a" vowel sounds different in the word "pat" and "paint". In Spanish you have only 5 vowel sounds and they are always pronounced the same way.

Systran Spanish Translation Software

You can translate a Spanish sentence, phrase or full document with Systran Standard, Systran Premium, Systran Enterprise and Systran Personal. 

This software translates your documents with the click of a key. It's accurate, fast and easy to use. Systran offers the most accurate Spanish translation software available in a software.

Systran is integrated directly into your preferred applications, such as Microsoft Word,  Internet Explorer, and Outlook.  A button will show up on your tool bar and you run Systran directly from your software application. 

Systran Translation Software has powerful conversion capabilities which retain the original document layouts, text highlighting, font styles, graphics and tables.

You can further increase the accuracy of the Spanish translation by building your own customer specific dictionary. 

Systran Translation Tools

Translate Emails,  MS Word documents, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer and Outlook!

These translation products are customizable so you can tailor the software to meet your needs, add to the dictionary, create topical glossaries and more.

Best of all this Spanish language translation software is very easy to use and has many custom features so the software becomes even more accurate as you customize it for your specific translation needs.

Spanish Translation Software: Translate Spanish <-> English with Systran

Why is Systran considered the best Spanish translation software? 

Systran has been the leader in translating software development for the past 30 years. The secret is in the way the translation engine is written, it uses word phrasing in translation. This means it  will look at each sentence and recognize how a word is used in a sentence to determine the proper translation. Systran recognizes tens of thousands of set phrases. Systran actually holds patents for their translation engine so no other translation software has these same features.