DeepL Translator: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
Thank you (and the others who replied). It is even from Germany which already sounds good.
The 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.
DeepL is the best there is right now.
It's probably even better in translation quality than Google Translate.
Aside from Deepl that has already been mentioned, I've stumbled upon https://nicetranslator.com/. I haven't used it extensively so can't vouch for longer texts.
I've also used 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
I use Papago from Naver. It doesn’t support as many languages, but it’s Korean translations are far superior to Google’s.
Re:Degoogling My Life
by rusticpenn on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:50PM
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Unlike many other tools, I find Deepl.com much better than Google translator for all my translations.
Re:Degoogling My Life
by thefourthchime on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:49PM
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Apple 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.
Yeah, 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.
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.