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Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by eduction »

Has anyone else noticed that Google Translate trips up a lot on GDPR cookie consent dialogs in Europe? I’ve often had to copy/paste the content of a web page because Google, when given the URL,couldn’t navigate past the dialog to get to the page content (or couldn’t allow me to dismiss it). Not sure if Kagi has solved this.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by banana_giraffe »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #31
ziddoap wrote: post #2

> 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 i…

> I'm also curious to the 1 additional language that Kagi supports (Google is listed at 243, Kagi at 244)? I just copied all of the values from the select element on the page ( https://translate.kagi.com/ ) and there's only 243. Now I genuinely wonder if it's Pig Latin. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080562

Also, notable, Google claims to support Inuktut and Tshiluba, and I don't see those two in Kagi.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by [deleted] »

ziddoap wrote: post #39
Aachen wrote: post #22

I can't use it because I'm not classified as "human" by a computer. There is no captcha that I could get wrong, just a checkbox that probably uses a black box model to classify me automatically Was curious after the post claimed that the quality is better than Google and DeepL, but the current top comment showed translations from Afrikaans that it got wrong but I could understand as a Dutch person who doesn't even sp…

> What do I do with this "Error Code: 600010"? Cloudfare, the gatekeeper of the internet, strikes again. The usual suspects are VPN or proxy, javascript, cookies, etc. https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/troubleshooting/... Unfortunately, even with the error code, I doubt the above page will help much.

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Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by baxtr »

Aachen wrote: post #22

I can't use it because I'm not classified as "human" by a computer. There is no captcha that I could get wrong, just a checkbox that probably uses a black box model to classify me automatically Was curious after the post claimed that the quality is better than Google and DeepL, but the current top comment showed translations from Afrikaans that it got wrong but I could understand as a Dutch person who doesn't even sp…

Interesting. Never had such an issue with Google. How do they do it?

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by unsupp0rted »

This is good. I wish it handled you-singular vs. you-polite-plural though.

It would be nice to say "use a casual tone". Or "the speaker is a woman and the recipient is a man".

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by gagabity »

Some bugs to iron out

"Document Too Long Document is too long to process. It contains 158 chunks, but the maximum is 256. Please try again later or contact support if the problem persists."

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by freediver »

gagabity wrote: post #66

Some bugs to iron out "Document Too Long Document is too long to process. It contains 158 chunks, but the maximum is 256. Please try again later or contact support if the problem persists."

Fixed, thanks for reporting.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by ks2048 »

ziddoap wrote: post #2

> 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 i…

A quick scrape of the two sites gives (literally a diff of sets of the strings used in language selection),

In Kagi, not Google:

  Crimean Tatar
  Santali
In Google, not Kagi:

  Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic)
  Crimean Tatar (Latin)
  French (Canada)
  Inuktut (Latin)
  Inuktut (Syllabics)
  Santali (Latin)
  Santali (Ol Chiki)
  Tshiluba
They really must have copied Google, because like I said this was diffing exact strings, meaning that slight variations of how the languages are presented don't exist.

Re: Kagi Translate

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Post by a2128 »

gen3 wrote: post #4

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?

It just uses LLMs, I've had it output a refusal in the target language by entering stuff about nukes in the input
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