@iris_meredith I’m really interested to see how the core tech adapts to this change. As you say, we haven’t had anything really *new* in ~50 years, pretty much since we invented compilers. That allowed a ton of new things, e.g dynamic languages.
My guess is that formal methods become practical (and then ubiquitous). They’re hassle for a manual coder to do, and don’t add much. But for an LLM that’s prone to hallucinations but fast at writing boilerplate… perfect.
Based on my experience and testing, the following online translators are good for the following languages.
My favourite: https://papago.naver.com
* Korean (use the honorific option)
* Japanese (don't use the honorific option)
* Chinese
* Thai
* Indonesian
* Vietnamese
I haven't tested Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, and Hindi, which are available on #Naver #Papago.
Second in rank: https://deepl.com
* Brazilian Portuguese
* Portuguese
* Turkish
* Polish
* German
* French
* Italian
* Spanish
I haven't tested Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian.
For Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, I get complaints that the translation is weird. I use Naver's Papago translation instead.
Special mention, #DeepL is the only one with Brazilian Portuguese.
Summary:
1: Naver's Papago for East and South-East Asian languages.
Also, Naver's Papago translation service also offers OCR translation and pronunciation/voice, and other learning features.
They also offer an installable app for #Android, #iOS, and #Mac platforms, other than the web version.
2: DeepL for European languages
3: Yandex for Russian and other European languages, also good with Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Japanese (but I still prefer Naver Papago). Yandex also offers #OCR translation.
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Untested for Japanese: https://www.romajidesu.com/translator/
Untested: https://www.reverso.net/text-translation
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How about you? What's your experience with the #Neural translators above?
Or maybe you know of other Neural translator services?
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