it depends on the language combination and the subject.
Google is inaccurate and often sounds unnatural, but if you are confronted with a very exotic language, it is certainly better than nothing
Deepl is excellent for contracts, I find that I don't need to change much, it also does a fair to good job translating general instructions. You just have to click and choose the best word or word order. At work I note that most something to English translators totally rely on Deepl, often too much.
Yandex is excellent for Russian and other East European languages. I have often been amazed how well it translates a technical vocabulary in anything from machinery to software, material testing to electronics.
Here we can also choose and pick the best, saves me a lot of work.
I work in technical translations with the odd contract or general text so I can say that I use deepl 62%, Yandex 35% and 3% google
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One of my Russian-language professors recommended multitran for Russian. I've also heard that Yandex's translate function is better for Russian than Google Translate.
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dylan413 wrote:One of my Russian-language professors recommended multitran for Russian. I've also heard that Yandex's translate function is better for Russian than Google Translate.
It really depends on the subject. Once I had a Russian expert report about a mining equipment failure. It was really important to get things right.
Multitran didn't help much and got some terms very wrong. Yandex was great but still struggled so in the end i found the missing bits on academic.ru and wikipedia.ru
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