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Did people think it was that good? IME, it translates normal text to and from many languages into something that provides the gist if lacking in the nuances. W
by njharman 16y ago
Did people think it was that good? IME, it translates normal text to and from many languages into something that provides the gist if lacking in the nuances. Which, IMHO, is flippin fantastically great even in the face of the odd horrible translation.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI was recently typing in some phrases from a 19th century book in French (which I'd found on Google Books), and it was interesting to watch the translation morph as I typed and provided more context. It wasn't perfect translation in the end, but I was still pretty impressed.
- tingley 16y agoLike most MT engines, Google Translate quality varies wildly by language pair. When MT is used for pre-translation in professional translation settings, it's pretty common to cherry-pick particular engines for particular source and target locales.
- tomjen3 16y agoI did - I used it to translate from simplified Chinese to English, and the results where extremly impressive - there where very few mistakes and some of the paragraphs read like they had been written by a professional translater.