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Side note: this translation by Google Translate is amazing. I am a native Dutch speaker and the translation is 100% correct. I had no idea Google Translate was
by mmcnl 7y ago
Side note: this translation by Google Translate is amazing. I am a native Dutch speaker and the translation is 100% correct. I had no idea Google Translate was this good.
- rumanator 7y agoI wouldn't be surprised if high-volume translations weren't hand-tweaked by a human to iron out mistranslations. In fact, I would be very surprised if Google didn't had a human in the loop to handle these usecases. They already rely on end-users to fix translation issues on their own.
- archi42 7y agoNope, I doubt that this translation is somehow more tweaked than other translations: Last year around this time I was shopping to import a dutch car. As a German native speaker I find dutch to be pretty well readable with some practice, but I sometimes double checked on Google Translate - and the translation were always excellent. (But reading Durch as a German is actually quite funny, so I prefered that). However, the user-supplied fixes have probably been a huge contributing factor to getting the translations where they're today. And Googlers reviewing some translations for their training data sets ;)
- jiofih 7y agoThe structure of English and Dutch sentences is often very similar. There is a glaring error right in the title though: “ Scientists Rotterdam and Utrecht claim discovery...”
- flipchart 7y agoBeing an English speaker living in The Netherlands, I rely heavily on Google Translate. Works near perfect for formal/semi-formal writing. Short form sentences & phrases (as you might find in casual emails), not so much.
- smhg 7y agoI recently had a similar experience when I came across DeepL [1]. I believe it was French to Dutch. The result was basically perfect. [1] https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator