Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine translation API

Re:Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine tran... by zmix on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:18PM (#26052335)

This could become big, however, there is still work to do, in order to match something like DeepL[1]

I took [2] and had it translated on both sites, and while the translation was already pretty good (definitely good enough to understand the article), it made some fatal mistakes ("trillion" in English is "Billionen" in German, while "billion" in English is "Milliarden" in German. It got only the latter right. Not something you want for a scientific text...

What amazed me with Deepl.com was this: There is a paragraph

    Yuanming Wang, a doctoral candidate in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, has developed an
    ingenious method to help track down the missing matter. She has applied her technique...

In German, there is a word for a female "doctoral candidate": "Doktorandin". LibreTranslate did not apply this language construct, but spoke from a "Doktorand" (male form), but translated the "she" correctly. DeepL, however, got it right. Which is amazing.

[1]: https://deepl.com/translator [2]: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-student-astronomer-galactic.ht...

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Re:Show HN: LibreTranslate – Open-source neural machine tran... by An0mammall on Sunday February 07, 2021 @03:54AM (#26053669)

DeepL is really impressive. I translated a very convoluted very technical text from German to English and the result was ok. I still have to edit it a bit to make it sound less German, but overall it's readable and understandable. It would have taken me quite a few hours to translate it, now I just have to edit it a bit.

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