{"id":3651,"date":"2017-09-04T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2017-09-02T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T17:49:00","slug":"tip-deepl-a-german-machine-tranlator-beating-binggoogle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/09\/04\/tip-deepl-a-german-machine-tranlator-beating-binggoogle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: DeepL, a German machine tranlator beating Bing\/Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a tip for my English language blog readers. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German blog<\/a> far more articles then this English language blog. Since a week a new and free translation service, named DeepL, is online. The service is operated by a German company and it's results beats Google, Microsoft and Facebook in machine translation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a native German I'm confronted with machine translated German KB articles from Microsoft (they are using Bing translate). When I need machine translation, I go to Google Translate. However, both translation services leave a lot to be desired in terms of quality.<\/p>\n<h2>DeepL a German machine translating service<\/h2>\n<p>The free service from German company Linguee has been public since last Monday. The website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepl.com\/translate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.deepl.com\/translate<\/a> offers free translations in seven languages. German web magazine heise.de writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Maschinelle-Uebersetzer-DeepL-macht-Google-Translate-Konkurrenz-3813882.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, DeepL doesn't use recurrent neural networks (like Google), but relies on Convolutional Networks. This seems to result in a much better translation quality. [You can use DeepL, to translate the heise.de article from German to English for a test.]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DeepL\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/A5C9Bvk.jpg\" alt=\"DeepL\" width=\"615\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used the program for a rough translation from German to English. The result had to be reworked &#8211; but it was a respectable result. I will probably use this service more often now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a tip for my English language blog readers. My German blog far more articles then this English language blog. Since a week a new and free translation service, named DeepL, is online. The service is operated by a German &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/09\/04\/tip-deepl-a-german-machine-tranlator-beating-binggoogle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319],"tags":[1016,30],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-machine-translation","tag-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}