8.4 AI translation

Text translation service by DeepL

• Launch of DeepL Translator in August 2017
• Headquater in Cologne

• 500 Mio users

• Uses neural network
• Up to 5000 characters for free

Figure from https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/20200206.html

119 paragraphs from different domains were translated by the various systems. External professional translators were hired to review the translations - without information about which system produced which translation. The graph displays how often each system’s translations were rated better than all other translations. Not shown are cases where several systems produced the best translation. The tests were performed in January 2020.