DeepL Translator
A neural machine translation service that bets on translation quality
WHAT IT IS
DeepL Translator is a machine translation service the German company DeepL released in August 2017, built on neural machine translation and noted for the quality of its translations between European languages. It offers web, desktop and mobile apps as well as an API for developers, and supports translating whole documents. Translations can be switched between formal and colloquial styles.
Why it matters
As a European neural machine translation product, it was widely regarded as outperforming general translation services of its time on several European language pairs.
Key specs
- Form
- Web, desktop and mobile, plus an API
- Document translation
- Translates whole documents
- Modality
- Text in; text out
Capabilities
Related concepts
Attention Mechanism
Every position can look directly at every other position and dynamically weight how much attention to pay
Transformer Architecture
Replacing word-by-word relay with a room where everyone speaks at once, so long-range dependencies are one hop away
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