datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5520 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 1 of 23 31 August 2009 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.asp?lang=EN
I figured I would share this with you guys, this is an excellent translator that conjugates correctly and everything, it even has a speech component that reads the sentence for you in a native tone!!!!!
I'm so excited, I've been typing things in for the past 20 minutes :D
Enjoy!!
-DK1
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Gatsby Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6097 days ago 57 posts - 129 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch
| Message 2 of 23 01 September 2009 at 10:59pm | IP Logged |
An unbelievable improvement over existing translators (which are junk). Thanks for the link!
Edited by Gatsby on 01 September 2009 at 11:01pm
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6405 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 3 of 23 02 September 2009 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
Amazing! Their German translation is really good, even though it does not get idioms. I also noticed them reshaping a sentence when translating to Chinese, for a somewhat better result than other translators would give. Their Chinese to English translations are still not usable though; it reversed the sense of one sentence and jumbled the words of the rest.
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betaquarx Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5654 days ago 70 posts - 90 votes Speaks: German*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 4 of 23 02 September 2009 at 10:50am | IP Logged |
Thank you very much indeed, what a great tool!
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The Narrator Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5538 days ago 31 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew* Studies: German
| Message 5 of 23 02 September 2009 at 11:32am | IP Logged |
Certainly not perfect, but still far better than any other machine. Does anyone know what technique they're using?
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5520 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 6 of 23 02 September 2009 at 6:09pm | IP Logged |
Narrator- It's based off of thousands of things that native speakers send the company, like conjugated translations, and if it doesn't give the right translation and you're a native, you can send them a correction :D
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5801 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 7 of 23 02 September 2009 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
The Narrator wrote:
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That may be correct for one or more language pairs, but I doubt if that applies to all language pairs. I just compared Reverso to Google Translate using two different large paragraphs for Dutch into English. Both did quite well but to me, Google Translate was better.
Surprisingly, for these two paragraphs, the combination of the best of both would provide an excellent translation. So for translations L2 into L1, using both would really help improve translations into your native language.
It would be interesting if our forum members could test Reverso and Google Translate (and others they think are very good) for a number of language pairs (in both directions). In particular, I'd like to see a Dutch native speaker compare these two for English into Dutch.
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artistscientist Diglot Groupie United States artistscientist.blog Joined 5689 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Spanish
| Message 8 of 23 02 September 2009 at 11:47pm | IP Logged |
Very useful! I have been looking for a text reading program that works as well as this
one does.
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