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.
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.
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
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.