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Is it also the superior product? It depends on your use-case. I always prefer it over Google Translate since it is much more accurate and keeps the overall accuracy and tone for longer texts, which Translate does not.

🌟 Precision & Natural Flow
DeepL’s AI excels in delivering translations that sound like they were written by a human. It captures idioms, tone, and context beautifully, especially in languages like German, French, or Spanish. Google often translates word-for-word, leading to clunky or literal results.

πŸ“š Context Matters
DeepL allows you to highlight specific words for alternative translations, making it perfect for refining technical, creative, or formal texts. Google’s one-size-fits-all approach struggles with subtle differences in meaning.

πŸ”’ Privacy Focus
DeepL prioritizes user privacy by anonymizing data and avoiding ad-targeting practices. Since the company behind it, DeepL SE, is based in Germany, it also profits from higher privacy from an ideology perspective (we germans love keeping our data safe & private). Google, while improving, still ties translations to user accounts for broader data collection.

πŸ’‘ Extra Features
From customizable formality levels (e.g., formal vs. informal English) to seamless document translation, DeepL offers tools that cater to professionals and casual users alike.

✍️ DeepL Write Arenβ€˜t the best writer? DeepL Write can help you paraphrase your own sentences and make them more structured, friendly or professional. Try it for your next work Email!

TL;DR: Google is faster and offers more languages. But for quality, nuance, and privacy, DeepL is unmatched. By using it, you also help an european company train their models instead of Googles. Give it a try, you will not be disappointed!

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wait I thought DeepL was common knowledge. You telling me people still use Google Translate in this day and age?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

Hi, I'm people. Downloading DeepL on my phone as I'm writing this

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

I still use Google Translate for language learning. I've tried both side by side and I like that Google is a bit more literal. It's hard to explain. Not saying it's better, just that it's been more useful to me for comparing sentences.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago

DeepL is gold. Before DeepL there was just were no goo translation apps for Finnish, but already 6 years ago I was incredibly impressed by it translating To/From Finnish - German - English.

DeepL is worth paying for too if you need such tools at work or for a personal project.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago

There's also a really useful Firefox extension that lets you mark text on any website and translate it via deepl in a small popup window: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/deepl-translate/

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn, they're German? Their quality is so much better than Google Translate!

Even though it still makes mistakes or strange sentences(i have only used it to translate from english to my native language, romanian), its so much more accurate than google translate and offers ways to easily correct those mistakes

[–] buyeuropean@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Fantastic service - been using it for years and it was already way ahead years ago.

[–] Sunlightl@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Been using it for ages. It provides better results that google translate on my uses.

[–] Beaker@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Yes, excellent app.

[–] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can DeepL be used offline? One of the killer features of Google Translate IMHO is the ability to download the language models and translate offline, that plus the integration with Google Lens which also can be used completely offline to translate text in real life pointing the camera or from an image is a killer feature I have not seen other alternative provide, I would like to be completely independent from an online service, even if it is Google if you download the languages and block internet access of the app with a firewall that is better than an online service.

I am currently not using Google Translator, uninstalled the app together with Lens and have a degoogled phone now but I am suffering in silence every day

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[–] thisismyname@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have Scottish Gaelic. Unlikely with such a niche language, but, does anyone know of a Google Translate alternatives with Gaelic?

[–] Snoezelpoes@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you need a specific language that's only on Google Translate you could try Lingva, it's an alternative frontend for Google Translate that supposedly should have less tracking and gives the same results.

https://lingva.ml/

You could also try translating trough an AI like Mistral to see what it will come up with. In my experience the translations in Google Translate are quite bad, especially for the smaller regional languages so AI might actually be better in that regard.

[–] thisismyname@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Oh sweet, that looks interesting. Thanks!