Ask HN: Alternative to Google Translate?

[ewuhic]

Are there any better alternatives to google translate? It doesn't matter that much if the solution is FOSS and does not rely on 3rd-party APIs, but such a thing would be highly appreciated too.

[lyx0]

https://www.deepl.com/translator is what I use. Can only recommend it but I've never personally used their API.

[capableweb → lyx0]

As someone who is multilingual, DeepL consistently gets better results (and more humanlike) between the four different languages I know, than any other free translator right now.

[Laudanum → lyx0]

Seconded. The service is excellent, and the paid version for longer documents absolutely worth it.

[miguendes → lyx0]

DeepL is unbelievable great! It's very flexible, it has informal and formal mode, presents several synonymous for some words, and so on.

[akoster]

Yandex Translate? http://translate.yandex.com

Or Babbelfish? https://www.babelfish.com/

[milad-laly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEsaGdGkTDk&t

Good youtube video to show examples and a good watch for privacy

[kkirsche]

Mate is a paid product on iOS and macOS at least which is good. Apple also has the built in translate app in iOS 15 and I believe the latest macOS (though I could be wrong on macOS)

[Snowflake99]

https://en.pons.com/translate

[Nginx487]

https://lingva.ml/

[srvmshr]

Bing Translate. It actually works better for Chinese & Japanese IMHO

[moneywoes]

Maybe try the trick Telegram was doing?

[ewuhic → moneywoes]

I'm taking more of a quality side than quantity.