For years now, we have been a world leader in machine translation between Bahasa Indonesia and English. Now, after years of development, we have expanded our translation product to include Tagalog to English, and the results show the hard work we put in to it.

We started this project in October 2006, and have had a team of very fine linguists and technologists working VERY hard since then to bring you this finished product. We hope you like it, tell your friends from the Phillipines about it, and that it makes the world just that little bit more accessable.

If you check out the ToggleText website today, you will notice two little flag icons in the top right-hand corner, below the black menu bar:

Flags as language icons

Clicking on these flags (the Union Jack for English, and the Indonesian flag for Indonesian) will let you access our website in different languages. It’s taken us a while but finally all of our website’s pages are available in Indonesian as well as English. Hooray!

Screenshot of the ToggleText FAQ in Indonesian

We know that a lot of our website visitors are from Indonesia so it is great to be able to offer them our site in their native language.

We don’t have any current plans to translate the website into other languages, but if we did, what would you like to see? Leave a comment and let us know.

"Toes" by Ingorrr, licensed CC-BY

Toggletext is dipping its toes into the world of blogs. It is an experiment for us, and currently I have that butterflies in the stomach feeling of excitement and nervousness, wondering how this will go.

Who are we?

We are Toggletext, a small language technology company based in Melbourne, Australia. What does “language technology” mean? It means most of us are serious language geeks (and by serious I mean SRSLY serious), who get way too excited about interesting syntactic structure and enjoy novel terminology usage far more than any person should. We also enjoy programmer’s humour.

Also, the beach is about 200 metres from our front door. It’s pretty cool.

Who am I?

Me, personally, the one writing this: my name’s Brianna. I’m 25, I’m a computational linguist and I’ve worked with Toggletext for over a year. And I like blogs.

I like the idea that a blog provides another way for a company or an organisation to communicate with its customers and other entities in the same space. I think we work on interesting problems, and I like being able to share that others.

Who are you?

Are you an Indonesian to English Kataku user?

Are you an English to Indonesian Kataku user?

Are you a language technology geek wondering how MT even gets made by small companies? (Sometimes we wonder, too :))

Do you use Kataku to translate news, gossip, emails, blogs, assignments, love letters from your cross-cultural sweetheart?

Do you use Kataku for a competitive advantage at work, to give you a head start on homework, to get the inside scoop on what’s happening in Indonesia, find out the latest sports news from Detik?

See, I just have no idea what the answers are to these questions… but I’m interested to find out.

Why are we doing this?

As a company I think we are growing pretty steadily. We recently completed a major website overhaul and a few of the projects we’re working on will be nearing completion by the end of this year. Our website gets thousands of visitors every single day and I find it just amazing that we don’t have a good mechanism for talking with those people (if you made it here, chances are you’re one of them). Oh, sure, we have a contact form, and it gets used often enough, but that doesn’t let people hear what others are saying too.

So basically, I hope we can use this blog to share our enthusiasm for what we do with everyone. And I hope we can get input from people “out there”, who find our products useful, to understand each other a little better.