DeepL gets every translation I try consistently better, at such a better rate that I don't even know why people use Google Translate anymore.
Very impressed with GPT-4 translation though -- especially the ability to steer it between "transliteration", "keep the meaning", "keep the tone", "use local idioms where appropriate", "explain different possible meanings/intentions", etc.
I've tried it when I had the time to compare (DeepL vs GPT4), and find them to be pretty equal.
But DeepL easily win on speed. 5 paragraphs would take just some seconds with DeepL and be almost 100% correct, while GPT4 would take almost a minute (sometimes more) while being about the same amount of correct.
> Very impressed with GPT-4 translation though -- especially the ability to steer it between "transliteration", "keep the meaning", "keep the tone", "use local idioms where appropriate", "explain different possible meanings/intentions", etc.
I've found that DeepL already does this well even thought it's not a LLM (as far as I know).
Yes. DeepL is very good! But with ChatGPT I can "tune" it more towards one way, whereas DeepL just only does whatever it does. DeepL has very very sensible defaults and the UI is great. But in fairness, DeepL basically will never just insert an appropriate idiom. Also GPT-3.5 is still worth comparing to DeepL as well.