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Anyone have a good alternative to Google Translate? I hardly use anything directly from Google anymore, just the Search Console to keep track of what people se
by mpol 6y ago
Anyone have a good alternative to Google Translate?
I hardly use anything directly from Google anymore, just the Search Console to keep track of what people search for on Goole Search for a handful of websites. But I do use Google Translate quite often, from different languages to English, and haven't found an alternative that I like.
I do know Yandex has a service like this, but I forgot about it :) I will check it out, just as the service from Microsoft. I would prefer to stay away from these 2 companies though.
- 0x006A 6y agoDeepL Translator: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
- mpol 6y agoThank you (and the others who replied). It is even from Germany which already sounds good.
- drummer 6y agoDeepL is the best there is right now.
- jlelse 6y agoIt's probably even better in translation quality than Google Translate.
- sdoering 6y agoThe free variant allows to translate up to 5000 letters. It does (if one is so inclined) to install small desktop utilities that allow to translate marked/highlighted text with a keyboard shortcut. It also shows alternative words if you click on a word in the translation. I am for quite some time now totally sold on deepl.
- tcit 6y agoDeepl gives nice results.
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- thefourthchime 6y agoApple has one built into iOS now. I only speak english and haven't used it with anyone else so I can't say how good it is.
- trinix912 6y agoYeah, but it only supports a few languages. At least for me, Google Translate does it because it supports lots of languages. Good luck translating a random Icelandic article, let alone expecting to get results comparable with Google Translate. I wish there was more competition in this area though.
- rusticpenn 6y agoUnlike many other tools, I find Deepl.com much better than Google translator for all my translations.
- jbaudanza 6y agoI use Papago from Naver. It doesn’t support as many languages, but it’s Korean translations are far superior to Google’s.
- rakoo 6y agoAside from Deepl that has already been mentioned, I've stumbled upon https://nicetranslator.com/ https://nicetranslator.com/. I haven't used it extensively so can't vouch for longer texts. I've also used https://www.linguee.com/ https://www.linguee.com/ in the past. I like that translations are taken from actual translations of existing documents, but it has the weakness of its strength: translations have a high chance of being if quality, but only if they do exist. In practice it's better to use it for idioms