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Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

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Post by alexei_rudak »

Hello,

I made machine translation server for Ubuntu that can translate unlimited volume of text, HTML, files and audio via REST API.

It works ultra-fast, translate millions of web-pages / day in 110 languages. This helps to drive more customers or enter new markets easily.

It comes as a docker image. The price starts from $200 / month. Easy integration with your projects.

Free demo available.

More details here: https://lingvanex.com/translationserver/

Or write me: alexeir@lingvanex.com

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#3

Post by lajamerr »

I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences.

Source Text:

俺は34歳住所不定無職。 人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。 つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。

Machine Translation:

I am 34 years old Address indefinite job. A fat musamen's nice guy in the middle of regret over life. It wasn't address indefinite until about three hours ago, it was just a withdrawal veteran neat, but when I realized it, my parents were dead, I was withdrawn and I didn't attend a relatives meeting, Hama to the brothers、I was kicked out of the house.

Still unintelligible. Along with Google Translate and other services. I don't know what it will take to get decent translations but it still seems far off.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

#5

Post by m00dy »

Signez wrote: post #4

You have quite a big typo, very visible, above the fold, in one of the biggest piece of content. It's a funny one, but a bit weird for a language-related product! (Quck -> Quick) https://imgur.com/a/VuQzNll

that means quicker than quick :)

Re: Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

#6

Post by fermigier »

lajamerr wrote: post #3

I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences. Source Text: 俺は34歳住所不定無職。 人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。 つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。 Machine…

Here's a translation (to British English) using Deepl:

"I'm 34 years old, unemployed with no fixed address. I'm a small, fat, ugly, nice guy in the middle of regretting my life. Just three hours ago I wasn't of no fixed address, just a reclusive veteran NEET, but when I found out my parents had died and I was treated as if I wasn't there because I was a recluse and didn't attend the family council, I fell for my brothers' schemes and was successfully kicked out of the house."

I have no idea what the original means, but at least the translation makes sense.

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#7

Post by anatolinicolae »

Signez wrote: post #4

You have quite a big typo, very visible, above the fold, in one of the biggest piece of content. It's a funny one, but a bit weird for a language-related product! (Quck -> Quick) https://imgur.com/a/VuQzNll

meh, it's good enough man

Re: Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

#8

Post by lelag »

fermigier wrote: post #6
lajamerr wrote: post #3

I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences. Source Text: 俺は34歳住所不定無職。 人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。 つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。 Machine…

Here's a translation (to British English) using Deepl: "I'm 34 years old, unemployed with no fixed address. I'm a small, fat, ugly, nice guy in the middle of regretting my life. Just three hours ago I wasn't of no fixed address, just a reclusive veteran NEET, but when I found out my parents had died and I was treated as if I wasn't there because I was a recluse and didn't attend the family council, I fell for my brot…

And how GPT3 translate it:

I am a 34-year-old man with no fixed address. I am a nice guy who is a little overweight and middle-aged. Until three hours ago, I was a veteran hikikomori who was not homeless, but when I realized that my parents had died, I was treated as if I did not exist because I did not attend the family meeting, and I was caught in the scheme of my brothers and sisters, and I was expelled from my house.

Deepl seem to do a better (and cheaper) job but both are very intelligible.

Re: Show HN: Unlimited machine translation API for $200 / Month

#9

Post by lajamerr »

fermigier wrote: post #6
lajamerr wrote: post #3

I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences. Source Text: 俺は34歳住所不定無職。 人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。 つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。 Machine…

Here's a translation (to British English) using Deepl: "I'm 34 years old, unemployed with no fixed address. I'm a small, fat, ugly, nice guy in the middle of regretting my life. Just three hours ago I wasn't of no fixed address, just a reclusive veteran NEET, but when I found out my parents had died and I was treated as if I wasn't there because I was a recluse and didn't attend the family council, I fell for my brot…

That makes significantly more sense.

This is what human translators came up with.

"I was a thirty-four-year-old man with no job and nowhere to live. I was a nice guy, but I was on the heavy side, didn't have good looks going for me, and was in the midst of regretting my entire life. I'd only been homeless for about three hours. Before that, I'd been the classic, stereotypical, long-time shut-in who wasn't doing anything with his life. And then, all of a sudden, my parents died. Being the shut-in that I was, I obviously didn't attend the funeral, or the family gathering thereafter. It was quite the scene when they kicked me out of the house afterward."

So the DeepL one seems more close. Though the Human writers do take some liberties and not entirely 1:1 accurate.

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#10

Post by sshine »

lajamerr wrote: post #3

I've been following machine translation for the past 8 years or so just as a consumer and I still haven't found anything that provides out-of-the-box good results, everything requires still heavy manual editing/complete rewrites of sentences. Source Text: 俺は34歳住所不定無職。 人生を後悔している真っ最中の小太りブサメンのナイスガイだ。 つい三時間ほど前までは住所不定ではない、ただの引きこもりベテランニートだったのだが、気付いたら親が死んでおり、引きこもっていて親族会議に出席しなかった俺はいないものとして扱われ、兄弟たちの奸計にハマり、見事に家を追い出された。 Machine…

I used to keep track of the state of machine translation some years back.

I think the way you measure the success of an automated translation is edit distance, i.e. how many manual edits you need to make to a translated text before you reach some acceptable state. I suppose it's somewhat subjective, but it is possible to construct a benchmark and allow for multiple correct results.

The best resources I knew back then were:

VISL's CG-3 self-reported a competitively low edit distance compared to Google Translate: https://visl.sdu.dk/constraint_grammar.html -- It is a convincing argument that in order to beat Google Translate, you want less fuzzy machine learning and more structural analysis. But the abstraction unfortunately requires a rather deep knowledge of any one particular language's grammar; having a PhD in computational linguistics helps.

Apertium has an open-source pipeline: https://apertium.org/ -- seems to be much more like an open-source approach with a quality similar to Google Translate (although I don't know if it's better or worse; probably slightly worse in most cases, and with a slightly lower coverage).

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