Has Google Translate been fixed yet?

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Post by gslin » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:55 AM UTC

Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
isgooglefixed.tw

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Post by withinboredom » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:39 AM UTC

Looks like Bing Translate in Edge works just fine.

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Post by sfmike » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:41 AM UTC

google maps also in taiwan made me ride on the highway on a motorbike which isn't allowed and got a nice ticket for following googles directions even with avoid highways enabled.

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Post by throwing_away » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:49 AM UTC

deepl is the best at the moment IMO

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Post by raincole » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:49 AM UTC

Taiwanese here. I have a mixed opinion about this site. Some of them are just weird:

- mega → 巨型 (百萬)

Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in every context?

*Edit: every, not any

- text → 文本 (文字)

Seriously? 文本 is the formal, academic way to say it, even in Taiwan. Have this person never been any academic environment?

- through → 通過 (透過)

Seriously???

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Post by MarcusE1W » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:50 AM UTC

I think DeepL is considered to be quite good for translations nowadays https://www.deepl.com/translator

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Post by Sniffnoy » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:53 AM UTC

raincole wrote: post #5

Taiwanese here. I have a mixed opinion about this site. Some of them are just weird: - mega → 巨型 (百萬) Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in every context? *Edit: every, not any - text → 文本 (文字) Seriously? 文本 is the formal, academic way to say it, even in Taiwan. Have this person never been any academic environment? - through → 通過 (透過) Seriously???

> Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in any context?

Would its use as a metric prefix not be a correct context for this?

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Post by ksec » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:53 AM UTC

That is on the basic assumption those are incorrect and required to be "fixed".

What makes you think Google "would" fix it?

Facebook has sided with Mainland China during 2019 protest in Hong Kong simply because there are more Chinese working inside Facebook than people from HK.

Youtube has sided with mainland China to censor words in Chinese comments simply because the censorship team employ, of course Chinese.

Just because Google doesn't operate in China, doesn't mean its influence are not there.

( Don't even get me started on Apple about its supply chains )

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Post by danwee » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:54 AM UTC

I'm using ChatGPT... who needs Google for translation? Either you know a little bit the target language and you are able to spot wrong translations (both in Google translate and ChatGPT) or you don't know enough about the target language and you trust the translation that is given to you (and in this case, ChatGPT is probably giving you a better translation)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 7:54 AM UTC

raincole wrote: post #5

Taiwanese here. I have a mixed opinion about this site. Some of them are just weird: - mega → 巨型 (百萬) Really? Do you really want to translate mega to 百萬 (million) in every context? *Edit: every, not any - text → 文本 (文字) Seriously? 文本 is the formal, academic way to say it, even in Taiwan. Have this person never been any academic environment? - through → 通過 (透過) Seriously???

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