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Specific-Chicken5419 t1_je104gx wrote

Google translate has done that for years pretty well. You just need to download local libraries to have speech without internet.

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BlackstockTy476 OP t1_je1ct6x wrote

Have you compared GPT to Google's translations? I've found them to be slightly better with context.

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Astronaut100 t1_je25ox8 wrote

Bing Chat is significantly better than any translation app out there. It captures the context and emotion of the original text.

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OlivertReiseArnor t1_je30h2u wrote

I've tried using Bing Chat for translations before and it's done worse compared to GPT-4 based on my experience. There's a theory that it uses Bing translate instead of GPT-4, though I don't know how true that is.

It sometimes rejects translations as well, which I found pretty odd. Maybe it's because of the prompt? I actually did a comparison test on this on Japanese visual novel text, Humans vs GPT-4 vs Google Translate vs DeepL on this post. Most still prefer the human translation on that post, but I also did a blind test poll to see which one they think is better, and the human actually only won by 5 votes.

Edit: If you're on mobile and you can't see the GPT 4 translation, swipe left, it's a table.

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Specific-Chicken5419 t1_je1g71b wrote

I've not. But any language I've used to chat with gpt or variants, I've always gotten a response that has made sense in the context of the prompt used.

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OlivertReiseArnor t1_je314l1 wrote

GPT-4 is significantly better, especially when it comes to story translations. Did a test on Japanese visual novel text, comparing human, gpt-4, google, and deepl translations, and it's scarily good, enough to change the translation industry type of good.

Edit: If you're on mobile and you can't see the GPT 4 translation, swipe left, it's a table.

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FoniksMunkee t1_je31x9q wrote

DL Translate is significantly better than google. I wouldn't use google as a gold standard.

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Esquyvren t1_je1alq2 wrote

I remember it was a game changer for traveling back in 2013-14. Especially eating out at places without English menus

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WarProfessional3278 t1_je1giqi wrote

Bad demo imo. The mom's Chinese is worse than English->Chinese google translate.

Plus, there are way too many tools out there that does real time speech to speech translation better than GPT.

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BlackstockTy476 OP t1_je1p5th wrote

I believe this was proven wrong at least with GPT-4. It was shown to do translations better than Google and DeepL, but I agree with the demo i believe they're using an older version of GPT

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WarProfessional3278 t1_je1w1xo wrote

>It was shown to do translations better than Google and DeepL

Oh really? Do you know a good benchmark for that?

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_je3zdfa wrote

imo it’s blatantly obvious with even just a few tests that GPT-4 is miles ahead of them, especially when translating large volumes of text. Even GPT-3.5 is comparable to them, likely better, although it’s definitely a closer comparison.

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YaAbsolyutnoNikto t1_je28rvi wrote

A capybara isn’t a rat though, is it? It’s that thingy that looks like a guinea pig but that is the size of a pig.

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Spire_Citron t1_je4dklq wrote

See, a better use for his time would have been getting ChatGPT to roleplay as a loving mother.

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