DeepL

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DeepL
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Online translation service
operator DeepL GmbH
programming language C ++
On-line August 28, 2017
https://www.deepl.com/

The DeepL Translator is an online service of DeepL GmbH in Cologne for machine translation , which was put online on 28 August 2017th When it is published, the service claims to be blindly studying the offers of the competition. a. Google Translate , Microsoft Translator, and Facebook .

Translation method

The service uses convolutional neural networks trained on Linguee 's database . The translation is generated by a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 peta flops and is powered by cheap hydropower in Iceland. CNNs are generally somewhat better suited for long connected word sequences, but have not been used by the competition in favor of recurrent neural networks due to their weaknesses . At DeepL, the weaknesses are countered with additional tricks, some of which are publicly known.

Word documents in .docx format and PowerPoint presentations (.pptx) are also translated. Footnotes, formatting and embedded images are retained.

So far, the languages ​​German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin) have been translated in both directions.

use

Free to use

Use is free of charge up to a text length of 5000 characters. Commercial customers can use a paid programming interface to embed DeepL in their own software. In addition, DeepL is financed through advertising on its sister website linguee.com.

Paid subscription

The paid subscription service DeepL Pro for professional translators, companies and developers has been available since March 2018 and has a programming interface and a software plug-in for CAT tools , including SDL Trados Studio . In contrast to the free version, translated texts are not saved, and the text length limit in the input field to 5,000 characters is no longer applicable. The price model provides for a monthly basic fee that includes a fixed amount of text. Any additional text is calculated based on the number of characters.

In October 2018, the pricing model was revised so that instead of just one payment model, there are various options to choose from.

Company history

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The company was founded in 2008 by Gereon Frahling and Leonard Fink in Cologne under the name Linguee GmbH . They built a dictionary for 25 languages ​​that can be used for translations via an online service. With the publication of DeepL 2017, the company name was changed to DeepL GmbH. In March 2020, Deepl announced that it had achieved a significant increase in performance over its competitors by modifying its AI system.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pina Merkert: Machine translators: DeepL competes with Google Translate. In: Heise online . Verlag Heinz Heise, August 29, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Anna Gröhn: Online translator in comparison: "I want to breathe my throat slowly". In: Spiegel Online. September 17, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ben Schwan: Machine intelligence: The better translator. In: Technology Review. August 31, 2017, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio: Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate . In: arXiv . September 1, 2014, arxiv : 1409.0473 .
  5. ↑ Devin Coldewey: DeepL schools other online translators with clever machine learning. In: TechCrunch. August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ DeepL: Translate documents with DeepL. July 18, 2018, accessed July 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Natalia Smolentceva: DeepL: Cologne-based startup outperforms Google Translate. In: dw.com. Deutsche Welle , December 5, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Daniel Berger: DeepL AI translator supports Japanese and Chinese. In: heise online . March 19, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ben Schwan: Machine translation: German start-up DeepL wants to support 230 language combinations. In: heise online. Heise , October 2, 2017, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Daniel Berger: DeepL Pro: New subscription service for professional translators, companies and developers. In: Heise online . Verlag Heinz Heise , March 20, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ DeepL: The new DeepL Pro pricing models: test for free, lower prices, team accounts. October 11, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Business register. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, accessed on September 7, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Is Deepl speculating on the Google exit, Jaroslaw Kutylowski? March 25, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .