DeepL Translator adds support for 13 European languages
DeepL Translator is a popular choice when it comes to the translation of text and documents, as it is considered by many to offer better translations than other machine-based translation services such as Google Translate or Microsoft Translate.
The service promises that its translations are more like the translations of humans, and it announced a breakthrough in AI translation quality last year.
A major shortcoming of DeepLÂ up until now, was that it supported only a small selection of languages. While these covered widely spoken languages such as English, French, Spanish, German or Italian, the selection did pale against the hundreds of languages that other services supported.
DeepL added support for new translation languages over the years. In 2018, it added Russian and Portuguese, and in 2020 support for Chinese and Japanese.
This month, DeepL announced support for 13 additional European languages. The languages in question are Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Swedish. It is the largest number of languages that DeepL added to its service, and brings the total to 24 different languages.
While that is still less than the hundreds of languages supported by other services, it ensures that translation quality is high for all languages according to the service.
The move adds translation support for "an estimated 105 million more native speakers around the world" according to DeepL. The company promises that it will add support for more languages in the future.
Widely spoken languages such as Thai, Arabic or Korean are not supported yet, and so are not many other languages.
The new languages are already available on the DeepL website, in the DeepL desktop applications for Windows and Mac, and integrated in the translation API.
Closing Words
DeepL continues to improve its service, and while it is still lacking when it comes to language support, it is continually improving in that department.
I tend to use DeepL whenever possible, as its translations seem more natural than those of other translation services. Major downside is still the low support for languages, but the additional 13 languages surely help get more users interested in the service.
Now You: which translation service do you use, and why?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.