DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby Montmorency » Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:13 am

lsilvaj wrote:DeepL is so good at German that, to me, it's actually scary. I haven't tried the other languages but I imagine it's even better.


To be fair, Google Translate is pretty good at German these days.
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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby MrPenguin » Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:46 am

It appears DeepL added thirteen new languages just a few days ago.

The complete list: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish.

I've experimented a bit with the Finnish-English language pair, and it seems to produce translations that are quite a bit more comprehensible and natural sounding than Google Translate (which is really only to be expected, given DeepL's track record). There are still noticeable gaps in its vocabulary, though those seem mainly to occur when translating non-standard stuff like slang.

On a sidenote: As usual for machine translation, it invents its own meanings (depending on context) when it doesn't know the actual meaning of a word, which means vigilance is required when making use of the service for any serious purpose. Fortunately, its built-in editor makes it easy to select alternate translations (or if a correct alternative is unavailable you can simply type your own correction, and DeepL will fill in the rest to fit what you typed).
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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby pingvin10 » Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:03 pm

I've just noticed they added Turkish and Indonesian as well.
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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby Le Baron » Tue Jun 14, 2022 8:36 pm

Right now Google just added a slew of languages to Translate. Several African and Indian and some Austronesian. Tit-for-tat.
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Postby luke » Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:52 pm

Google and Yandex know Esperanto. Bing and DeepL haven't learned it yet.
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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby Le Baron » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:04 pm

luke wrote:Google and Yandex know Esperanto. Bing and DeepL haven't learned it yet.

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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby luke » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:14 pm

Le Baron wrote:
luke wrote:Google and Yandex know Esperanto. Bing and DeepL haven't learned it yet.

Pardonu min. Mi ne komprenas.

See how easy it would be?
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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby Le Baron » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:25 pm

Ili ankaŭ opinias, ke ĝi estas nur 'fuŝita' hispana. Estis ankaŭ la opinio de Noam Chomsky. Google traduko provos ĉiam korekti gin usante la hispanan... (try again with this spelling..etc).

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Postby rdearman » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:26 pm

Le Baron wrote:They all hate Esperanto.

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Re: DeepL appears to be significantly better than Google Translate

Postby Le Baron » Tue Jun 14, 2022 11:35 pm

rdearman wrote:
Le Baron wrote:They all hate Esperanto.

Join the club.

I'd imagine that the club is so big the numbers are too long to fit on the membership cards. I think perhaps though the club for 'never heard of it' might be biggest.
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