AI book translator?

[TheLastShin]

Anybody know or use a decent AI book translator? I have a few books that I would like to post but I can't find a decent one that can do the job properly. Any links would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Swampdweller900]

I did a translation from French to English a couple years back and just used Google translate, going chapter by chapter. Google translate is a neural machine translation, so it's real machine learning AI, not just an LLM. It was pretty solid, and did save a TON of time. I tried to manually translate the same book years ago and gave up after a few chapters just from the amount of time it took.

There were a number of places where OCR and/or the original meaning were not fully captured and I had to go back and insert true meaning. That's sort of the work of a real translator anyway. It was also a novella and not a technical manual (spell books are technical manuals of a sort, right?)

Using LLMs (or sites that are just frontends for a custom GPT) can be hit or miss depending on the target language.

 

[HoldAll]

I like deepl.com, the free option allows you to machine-translate about 3-5 pages pages in one go last time I checked; I think the paid plan lets you translate entire uploaded documents.

 

[Sabbatius]

The last time I did a translation of work with a language I do not know fully was Daemon Barzai. After looking through the translation post process, I honestly could have done a bit better if I took the time. However, it was relatively easy to clean up.

As long as we proof read and clean up a bit on interpretation, I have no issue with using translators. AI or any program utilized for linguistics will never be able to translate language fluidly.