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DeepL Translator
Type of site
Neural machine translation
Available in24 languages
HeadquartersCologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
OwnerDeepL SE
Key peopleJaroslaw Kutylowski
URLdeepl.com/en/translator
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched28 August 2017; 7 years ago (2017-08-28)
Current statusActive

DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service launched in August 2017 and owned by DeepL SE, based in Cologne.[1][2][3]

The translating system was first developed within Linguee and launched as entity DeepL. It initially offered translations between seven European languages and was gradually expanded to support 24 languages with 552 language pairs.[4] Additionally, approximations of language equivalence are proposed among all of those languages, using a two-step process via an English pivot.[citation needed]

The translator is offered for free with limitations, which can be removed with a paid subscription. The company also licenses its translation application programming interface.[5]

Service

Translation methodology

The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[6] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[7][8] According to the developers, the service uses a newer, improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations compared to competing services.[8] The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[2][9][10] In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long, coherent word sequences, but have so far not been used by the competition due to their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks. The weaknesses at DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known.[6][11][12]

Translator

The translator can be used for free, with a 5,000 characters limit per translation.[13] Commercial software customers can use a paid application programming interface to embed DeepL in their software.[14] Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files in Office Open XML file formats (.docx and .pptx) and PDF files can also be translated. Footnotes, formatting and embedded images are retained.[15]

Supported languages

As of March 2021, it supports the following languages:[3][4]

Pro subscription

The DeepL Pro paid subscription for professional translators, companies and developers, which has been available since March 2018, offers a programming interface and a software plug-in for computer-assisted translation tools, including SDL Trados Studio. In contrast to the free version, translated texts are not saved; the text length in the input field is not limited. The pricing model provides for a basic monthly fee that includes a set amount of text, with texts beyond this calculated according to the number of characters.[16] Confidentiality features are also available to deliver translations of submitted text and delete the text as soon as the translation is complete.[13]

History

The translating system was first developed within Linguee by a team led by Chief technology officer Jaroslaw Kutylowski in 2016. It was launched as DeepL Translator on 28 August 2017, offering translations between English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Dutch.[17][18][19][10] With the launch, it claimed to have surpassed its competitors in self-conducted blind tests and BLEU scores, including Google Translate, Amazon Translate, Microsoft Translator and Facebook's translation feature.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

With the release of DeepL in 2017, Linguee's company name was changed to DeepL GmbH.[27] In 2017, it was also financed by advertising on its sister site linguee.com.[28] In January 2021, the company changed its form from Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung to Societas Europaea.[29]

Portuguese and Russian languages support was added on 5 December 2018.[30][31] Translation software for Microsoft Windows and macOS was released in September 2019.[32][13] Support for Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese was added on 19 March 2020, which it claimed had surpassed aforementioned competitors as well as Baidu's and Youdao.[33][34][35] 13 more European languages were added in March 2021.[36]

Reception

Reception of DeepL Translator in 2017 has been generally positive, with TechCrunch appreciating it for the accuracy of its translations, stating that it was more accurate and nuanced than Google Translate,[6] and Le Monde thanking its developers for translating French text into more 'French-sounding' expressions.[37] A news article from the website of the Dutch television channel RTL Z stated that DeepL Translator "offers better translations […] when it comes to Dutch to English and vice versa".[38] An Italian newspaper la Repubblica[39] and a Latin American website "WWWhat's new?" showed praise as well.[40] In 2020, Japanese website Gigazine found the Japanese translation to be accurate, even when the text was mixed with dialects.[41]

Press noted it had far fewer languages available for translation than competing products.[30] It also lacks free app integrations.[citation needed] A 2018 paper by the University of Bologna evaluated the Italian to German translation capabilities and found the preliminary results to be in similar quality to Google Translate.[citation needed] In September 2021, Slator remarked that the language industry response was more measured than the press, while noting it is still highly regarded.[42]

DeepL Translator won the 2020 Webby Award for Best Practices, and the 2020 Webby Award for Technical Achievement (Apps, Mobile, and Features), both in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice.[43]

Statistics

Number of visits in million according to Similarweb from September 2017 to April 2019

DeepL.com was ranked 136th in the Alexa ranking of the most visited sites in the world as of October 2021.[44]

See also

References

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