Kagi Translate

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Post by lkellar » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

Re: Kagi Translate

#2

Post by ziddoap » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:01 PM UTC

>Quality ratings based on internal testing and user feedback

I'd be interested in knowing more about the methodology here. People who use Kagi tend to love Kagi, so bias would certainly get in the way if not controlled for. How rigorous was the quality-rating process? How big of a difference is there between "Average", "High" and "Very High"?

I'm also curious to the 1 additional language that Kagi supports (Google is listed at 243, Kagi at 244)?

>Kagi Translate is free for everyone.

That's nice!

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by krackers » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

How is this compared to using gpt-4 directly?

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by gen3 » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

Has anyone seen info on how this works? "It’s not revolutionary" seems like an understatement when you can do better then DeepL and support more languages then google?

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by leipert » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

Kudos in the launch! Looking good!

One benefit of Google Translate is with languages like Hebrew and Arabic, you can enter in those languages phonetically or with on-screen keyboards.

Re: Kagi Translate

#6

Post by ks2048 » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:07 PM UTC

> Limitations

> We do not translate dynamically created content ...

What does that mean?

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by ohmahjong » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:08 PM UTC

Disclaimer: I am already a Kagi customer.

At least for Afrikaans I'm not impressed here. There are some inaccuracies, like "varktone" becoming "pork rinds" instead of "pig toes" and also some censorship ("jou ma se poes" does NOT mean "play with my cat"!). Comparing directly against Google Translate, Google nails everything I threw at it.

I didn't see any option to provide feedback, suggested translations, etc, but I'm hopeful that this service improves.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by agluszak » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

ks2048 wrote: post #6

> Limitations > We do not translate dynamically created content ... What does that mean?

I would guess it's only able to translate the html content sent on page load - so static webpages, but not SPAs etc.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

ks2048 wrote: post #6

> Limitations > We do not translate dynamically created content ... What does that mean?

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Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by jsheard » Thu, Nov 07, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

ks2048 wrote: post #6

> Limitations > We do not translate dynamically created content ... What does that mean?

I assume it means they only translate what's in the HTML, not anything that's added via Javascript later.