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Does Google Translate still have two engines (paid vs unpaid)?
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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Nov 7, 2023

Hello everyone

I recently noticed some artefacts in a translation that used the paid NMT version of Google Translate that made me wonder whether I've accidentally used the non-paid engine. So I did a small test, and the paid NMT version of Google Translate gave nearly the exact same translation as the paid phrase-based (i.e. statistical) version of Google Translate *and* the non-paid web-based version of Google Translate. So I'm wondering if perhaps Google no longer has the old, ph... See more
Hello everyone

I recently noticed some artefacts in a translation that used the paid NMT version of Google Translate that made me wonder whether I've accidentally used the non-paid engine. So I did a small test, and the paid NMT version of Google Translate gave nearly the exact same translation as the paid phrase-based (i.e. statistical) version of Google Translate *and* the non-paid web-based version of Google Translate. So I'm wondering if perhaps Google no longer has the old, phrase-based, statistical engine, and is using the paid NMT engine even for its free web-based version.

As an experiment, if you have a Google Translate API in your CAT tool, please won't you translate the following file for me from English to Afrikaans (and send it to me), using the NMT engine (and if possible, also the old statistical engine).

http://www.leuce.com/tempfile/source%20file.docx

Thanks
Samuel

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