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TRANSLATION TOOLS
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DEEPL The translation tool DeepL is an online machine translation service offered by DeepL GmbH in Cologne, Germany. DeepL is impressive particularly because rather than generating a literal translation, it is able to produce a comparatively nuanced text. A note on accuracy: DeepL offers very good results especially for English. How - ever, as always when using machine-generated translation, users should be aware that the target text may not be one hundred per cent accurate. The product should always be carefully proofread and, depending on how it is to be used, a disclaimer added to point out that it was produced by machine translation. It is free to use for texts up to 5,000 characters.
AUTOMATIC SUBTITLING AND TRANSLATION OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS
YouTube automatically recognises the language of the videos and produces a text version of the spoken content that users can opt to be displayed as subtitles, although it should be said that these can contain mistakes. Users can also have the subtitles translated via Google’s automatic translation service Google Translate which, again, can produce odd results. That said, the function can be helpful for participants who want to watch a video in a certain language in order to learn some- thing. The function can also be used when participants may want to show the group something that only exists in a certain language.
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