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Today I learned that DeepL was German. It's hands down the best Japanese to English translator (according to my Japanese coworkers) and I was surprised how many used it in office. (never used it myself as a trilingual)



Deepl is amazing as it is way faster in translating than LLMs


https://www.deepl.com/write is also better in improving the style of your texts than chatGPT and other genAIs


What I like about DeepL is that it tries to translate colloquially. For popular metaphors or sayings, Google does okay but it’s not perfect, especially if you don’t provide the entire sentence as context. DeepL does better with recognizing fragments imo.


How does it compare to 4o? I used to use deepl but not since the later chatgpt versions came out.


what do you mean by chatgpt versions?


I think they are referring to “models” in this case as versions. 4o is a ChatGPT model as is o3, 4o-mini, Sora, etc etc.


I like DeepL, but without Catalan, it has less value.




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