In general, the cost of translation projects depends on five main factors:
- The source and target
languages
- The volume of words contained in the original texts
- The format of the original documents and the translated documents
- The delivery date established for the translation project
- The complexity of the texts
Volume of the original texts
Perhaps the most determining factor involved in the calculation of a translation project quote is the volume of words, in the case of languages such as English or Spanish
, or sometimes characters,
in the case of certain languages such as Japanese or Chinese, contained in
the original text. Naturally, increases in the volume of words to be translated are reflected in the corresponding translation project quote. This factor is very closely related to the
- delivery date established for the translation project
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