HTS™ is a set of API functions that allows you to integrate human translation into your content management workflow, your desktop environment and your server applications.

HTS works inside your application to get instant, real-time translation quotations (word count, price and delivery date) based on real-time translator availability. It then allows you to accept that quotation and place your order behind-the-scenes, automatically sending the text to be translated to us and automatically returning the translated content back to your applications.

HTS represents a significant milestone in human translation of electronic content:

	You can obtain a professional, human translation as easily as a machine translation.
	You can order the translations directly from your own applications - no need to call or send an email to anyone.
	HTS knows the real-time availability of all 36,812 of our approved translators and can plan deliveries accurately.
	It lets you integrate human translation in any workflow or Content Management System (CMS).
	It's cost-effective - the high level of automation combined with years of experience means low rates, superior quality and no start-up costs.
	Lets you quickly create your own translation service in 1730 language pairs - use HTS to give translation quotes to your own customers.
	It's fully compliant with XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format), the accepted standard for interchange of text to be translated. HTS is also compliant with RFC-3066 language naming standards.

You can call HTS with this simple URL:

http://www.translated.net/hts/?f=quote&s=french&t=english&w=312&cid=htsdemo&p=htsdemo5

If you click on it, HTS will reply with a plain text file containing a quote with the guaranteed price and guaranteed delivery date for a 312-word translation from French to English. You can experiment with HTS by changing the parameters in your own browser.

The input parameters in the example above are:

f	Function (f=quote)
s	Source language (s=french)
t	Target language (t=english)
w	Word count (w=312)
cid	Your user ID
p	Your password

The output string in the example above is:

1	Return code
OK	Call was successful
2005-06-24T11:30:00Z	Delivery date and time
312	Word count
29.64	Price in euro
<NNNNNN>	Real Job ID

HTS has many more parameters, for example the URL where we can find the text (in any format, including XML). By changing the "function" parameter you can actually place and confirm the order without ever picking up the phone, sending an email or visiting a website.

To see more of HTS's rich functionality and understand how it can benefit your business, download the Technical Specifications PDF:

Technical Specifications (PDF/English)


Here is a collection of simple PHP code that calls HTS using HTTP post:

PHP_code_samples.zip


Click here for an online SOAP interface reference guide.

For additional customization and more information contact:

Marco Trombetti
marco@translated.net
+39 06 90 25 4 215