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> I think it is safe to say that Google Translate almost never macthes the skills of human translators except for rare trivial cases. As a rule it's rubbish, an
by vadimberman 9y ago
> I think it is safe to say that Google Translate almost never macthes the skills of human translators except for rare trivial cases. As a rule it's rubbish, and sometimes as an exception it can be OK.
Depends on the language pair.
Depends on the human translator. I met translators who wouldn't compete against 1990s Babelfish / SYSTRAN well. They still had some business.
- mojuba 9y agoI think it is unfair and even wrong to compare GT to the job of professional real time translation, because the latter is probably one of the most challanging jobs that I know of, next to astronauts and film stuntmen. Instead, what we mean most of the time is "this piece of text in the language I speak fluently that came out of Google Trabslate reads like nonsense to me, but I kinda get it (though sometimes I don't)". Meaning, it's way below my standards of quality for a language I know very well.
- icebraining 9y agoWho said anything about real time?
- pjc50 9y agoGoogle translate has lots of disadvantages but it is at least fast. Professional written translators manage a few tens of words a minute; professional simultaneous translators manage to keep up most of the time but are occasionally defeated by languages with very different sentence structures, and require frequent breaks.