I really want to make the complete switch to DeepL instead of Google Translate, but I can’t figure out how to setup the URL for auto detecting language.
Withhttps://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=SEARCHTERMwhatever word or sentence I input, it uses the “Detect language” option, which I know that DeepL has as an option for too. But I can’t figure out what keyword to put in the DeepL url, for it to use the Detect Language option.
Here’s English to Spanish:https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#en/es/SEARCHTERMHopefully I’m just missing something obvious due to having been down with the flu this past week.
For me, just the default URL gives “detect language”… (https://www.deepl.com/en/translator).
Yes, if you go to the website, and start typing, it defaults to the Detect language option.
But what I’m talking about is customizing the url, so you don’t need to go to the site, to start your search.If you go to https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%C2%BFHola, cómo estás? it will automatically detect that the string is in Spanish, because of the
autoin the url.That’s what I’m looking for with DeepL.
EDIT: Damn, seems like the parameter used to be
xx, but that it’s been broken for some time now, if this exchange in January on stackoverflow.com is to be believed. Or the parameter was.and/orauto, according to this Reddit thread back in November, where they also talk about it being broken.
@riot @Blaze Well, #Vivaldi comes with build in translation feature: https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/
That is true, as do most browsers nowadays, including Firefox, now that I’ve ditched Chromium.
But we are discussing DeepL, and in that regard, my issue with the URL is that I am using the built-in browser search engine section, where you can setup your own url and write in a keyword. Then every time you type that keyword in the address bar, any term following it will be searched on the site, through the URL that you have provided.
There’s more detail on that in this previous comment of mine, in reply to an earlier user who responded to my original comment.
@riot @Blaze DeepL isn’t easy to use from URL search, because they sell the API as premium access.
I’m using Lingva instead:
https://lingva.ml/auto/en/SEARCHTERM
I have a DeepL plug-in in my browser and a DeepL app. I highlight text, and press to translate. This is great if you want to learn a language (I compare my understanding of a sequence with the translation, check what the one word I didn’t understand meant, etc.)
Does anyone need to use AI, truly?
DeepL is pretty neat, can confirm
The app even has translating from photos.
I’m using that feature to read memes from German comms
Isn’t Mistral Microsoft?
@Blaze Mistral is fine but I haven’t found a match for Perplexity.ai as of now. Its research, reasoning and accurate citation capabilties are simply superb. Perplexity is a Meta-AI that generates prompts that force the AI’s it works with to be more precise. It can be configured to use various other AIs, but Mistral is not among them.
Scaleway is awesome using Open WebUI or directly through their own site:
No, I don’t need AI, I’m already OP.
Flux (image generator) is by Black Forest Labs out of Germany
Don’t forget the ai horde! Not only European, but also completely Foss and crowdsourced. https://aihorde.net/
Love DeepL. May make some of the same mistakes by doing more literal translations (like every other service does) for things like names of people/games (from what I’ve tested with Japanese), but is still decent overall.
Counterpoint: openAI loses money on every ChatGPT search so using them is actually damaging them.
Counterpoint 2: AI sucks and no one should use it.
AI is great if you use it the right way. When writing at work, I usually ask for a template or a structure. That way I skip the basic stuff and have some scaffolding to iterate on. It removes the blank page. I love it.
