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Simplified and Traditional Chinese correct or not?

Chinese translation: Original translations not recommended (recommended: 客人媒体中心/客人媒體中心)

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English term or phrase:Simplified and Traditional Chinese correct or not?
Chinese translation:Original translations not recommended (recommended: 客人媒体中心/客人媒體中心)

13:38 Oct 11, 2010
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English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: Simplified and Traditional Chinese correct or not?
Hello everyone!
I have worked with a Chinese translator,but i don't know if the two words she translated are correct because they told me it's not,please tell me if it's correct when not kindly give the correct one. Traditional and Simplified. thank you

GUEST MEDIA HUB (AVAYA)
Outside call

顧客多媒體中心（AVAYA）
外撥電話：

顾客多媒体中心（AVAYA）
外拨电话：
ALTSPhilippines
Local time: 12:57
Original translations not recommended (recommended: 客人媒体中心/客人媒體中心)
Explanation:
The original translations for the first phrase mean “Customer Multimedia Center (Hub)”. They could not be strictly said as WRONG, but I do not prefer them.

See the reference link.

Guest Media Hub is a device developed by Avaya for the hospitality industry. It is to be used by guests in hotels:

***

Designed for hospitality providers, Guest Media Hub is a multimedia communications system for guest rooms. Guest Media Hub provides a SIP-enabled phone and easy, touch-screen access to a multitude of hotel guest services. It has a large, colorful screen and an intuitive user interface.

Guest Media Hub allows a hospitality provider to improve staff productivity, reduce costs and drive incremental revenue by giving guests fast access to information and in-room self-serve options. It is integrated with the hotel’s property management system to deliver custom applications, allowing guests to make phone calls, set alarms, get stock quotes, check the weather, make restaurant reservations, order room service, explore area attractions and more.

Use Guest Media Hub to meet the unique needs of each guest. For example, historical data could be used to suggest a particular tee time or to offer a special spa treatment. Guest Media Hub can help providers offer guests a special and memorable experience—an important element for fostering returning clients.

***

So, Guest Media Hub is a personal communication center, though a multimedia one for guests in hotels.

We usually use the Chinese 客人, rather than 客户 for "guests" in hotels. This device is a kind of personal call/contact center, so it is a media center (媒体中心), rather than a multimedia center (多媒体中心) in nature.

So my suggested translations are 客人媒体中心 in Simplified Chinese and 客人媒體中心 in Traditional Chinese.

I think the translations for the second phrase (outside call) are acceptable.
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lbone
China
Local time: 12:57
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Summary of answers provided
5Original translations not recommended (recommended: 客人媒体中心/客人媒體中心)
lbone
4顧客媒體中心（AVAYA） 外部呼叫： 顾客媒体中心（AVAYA） 外部呼叫：
GUO-HUAN CHEN
4客人媒体（电视）厅 （AVAYA）外线电话； 客人媒體（電视）廳（AVAYA）外線電話
Francis Fine
4客用媒体中心，外线电话
Yujia


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
simplified and traditional chinese correct or not?
顧客媒體中心（AVAYA） 外部呼叫： 顾客媒体中心（AVAYA） 外部呼叫：


Explanation:
除了“多媒体（multimedia）”和“媒体（media）”有一点混淆之外，人家翻译得挺好的。

GUO-HUAN CHEN
Canada
Local time: 00:57
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
simplified and traditional chinese correct or not?
Original translations not recommended (recommended: 客人媒体中心/客人媒體中心)


Explanation:
The original translations for the first phrase mean “Customer Multimedia Center (Hub)”. They could not be strictly said as WRONG, but I do not prefer them.

See the reference link.

Guest Media Hub is a device developed by Avaya for the hospitality industry. It is to be used by guests in hotels:

***

Designed for hospitality providers, Guest Media Hub is a multimedia communications system for guest rooms. Guest Media Hub provides a SIP-enabled phone and easy, touch-screen access to a multitude of hotel guest services. It has a large, colorful screen and an intuitive user interface.

Guest Media Hub allows a hospitality provider to improve staff productivity, reduce costs and drive incremental revenue by giving guests fast access to information and in-room self-serve options. It is integrated with the hotel’s property management system to deliver custom applications, allowing guests to make phone calls, set alarms, get stock quotes, check the weather, make restaurant reservations, order room service, explore area attractions and more.

Use Guest Media Hub to meet the unique needs of each guest. For example, historical data could be used to suggest a particular tee time or to offer a special spa treatment. Guest Media Hub can help providers offer guests a special and memorable experience—an important element for fostering returning clients.

***

So, Guest Media Hub is a personal communication center, though a multimedia one for guests in hotels.

We usually use the Chinese 客人, rather than 客户 for "guests" in hotels. This device is a kind of personal call/contact center, so it is a media center (媒体中心), rather than a multimedia center (多媒体中心) in nature.

So my suggested translations are 客人媒体中心 in Simplified Chinese and 客人媒體中心 in Traditional Chinese.

I think the translations for the second phrase (outside call) are acceptable.


    Reference: http://www.avaya.com/usa/service/guest-media-hub
lbone
China
Local time: 12:57
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
simplified and traditional chinese correct or not?
客人媒体（电视）厅 （AVAYA）外线电话； 客人媒體（電视）廳（AVAYA）外線電話


Explanation:
I agree that 客人seems more widely and comfortably used than 主顾 or 顾客. The latter two emphasize business/transactional relationship that most Chinese hotel guests are not keenly aware of.

I put 电视 in brackets, indicating that it might be an alternative if the center (中心，a term gradually acquiring popularity, but hall 厅/廳seems more tangible and descriptive) is dominated by TV sets.

外线电话 seems to me to specify phone lines from outside, esp. outside the hotel. 呼叫, on the other hand, could signify somebody loudly calling you from outside the room/window. 　

Francis Fine
United States
Local time: 21:57
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
simplified and traditional chinese correct or not?
客用媒体中心，外线电话


Explanation:
Just think the translations above is normally used

Yujia
Local time: 23:57
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