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Machine translation is an algorithm which attempts to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.
General information
Basic general information for popular machine translation applications.[1]
| Name | Platform | License | Price | Latest stable release | Source availability | Translation via website |
Number of supported languages |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anusaaraka | Unix compatible | GPL | No fee required | 0.50 | Yes | Rule-based, deep parser based, paninian framework based; all programs and language data are free and open-source | ||
| Apertium | Cross-platform (web application), Unix compatible, precompiled packages available for Debian | GPL | No fee required | 3.9.4 | Yes | [1] | Rule-based, shallow transfer; all programs and language data are free and open source | |
| Babylon | Windows, Mac | Proprietary software | Depends on license ($9.90–$89 for one license) | 11.0.1.6 | No | Prompts to install the Babylon Toolbar, a browser hijacker which is difficult to remove.[2][3] | ||
| Baidu Fanyi | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [2] | 200+ | Neural machine translation | |
| DeepL | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required, paid "Pro" version available | No | [3] | 110+ | Neural machine translation | |
| Google Translate | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [4] | 240+ | Statistical and neural machine translation | |
| GramTrans | Cross-platform (web application) | Freeware | No fee required | ? | No | [5] | Rule-based, using constraint grammar | |
| IBM Watson | Cross-platform | SaaS | Free, commercial (varies by plan) | 3.0 | No | 55+ | Both rule-based and statistical models developed by IBM Research. Neural machine translation models available through the Watson Language Translator API for developers.[4][5] | |
| Microsoft Translator | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [6] | 170+ | Statistical and neural machine translation | |
| Moses | Cross-platform | LGPL | No fee required | 4.0[6] | Yes | Drop-in replacement for Pharaoh, features factored translation models and decoding of confusion networks. | ||
| Moses for Mere Mortals | Ubuntu Linux | GPL | No fee required | 2014-11-16 | Yes | Free open source; based on Moses; translation memories integration. | ||
| Naver Papago | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [7] | 15+ | Machine translation | |
| NiuTrans | Cross-platform | GPL | No fee required | 1.4.0 | Yes | [8] | 450+ | Competitive performance for Chinese translation tasks; statistical machine translation. Supports phrase-based, hierarchical phrase-based, and syntax-based (string-to-tree, tree-to-string, and tree-to-tree) models for research purposes. |
| OpenLogos | Windows, Linux | GPL or paid initiative taker | No fee required | 1.0.3 | Yes | Rule-based, deep transfer | ||
| PROMT | Cross-platform (web application) | Proprietary software | Commercial | 12.5 | No | [9] | 25+ | Hybrid, rule-based, statistical and neural machine translation[7] |
| Reverso | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required, paid "Premium" version available | No | [10] | 25+ | Neural machine translation | |
| SYSTRAN | Cross-platform (web application) | Proprietary software | $200 (desktop) – $15,000 and up (enterprise server) | Version 7 | No | [11] | 60+ | Hybrid, rule-based, statistical machine translation and neural machine translation |
| Translate (Apple) | iOS, iPadOS and watchOS | Proprietary software | ? | No | [12] | 20+ | Neural machine translation | |
| Yandex.Translate | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [13] | 110+ | Statistical and neural machine translation |
Languages features comparison
The following table compares the number of languages which the following machine translation programs can translate between. (Moses and Moses for Mere Mortals allow you to train translation models for any language pair, though collections of translated texts (parallel corpus) need to be provided by the user. The Moses site provides links to training corpora.)
This is not an all-encompassing list. Some applications have many more language pairs than those listed below. This is a general comparison of key languages only. A full and accurate list of language pairs supported by each product should be found on each of the product's websites.
Multi-pair translations
Paired translations
| Language | Language | Apertium[15] | OpenLogos | GramTrans | SYSTRAN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Dutch | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Arabic | English | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Arabic | Maltese | ← | No | No | No |
| Aragonese | Catalan | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Aragonese | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Arpitan | French | ← | No | No | No |
| Asturian | Spanish | ← | No | No | No |
| Basque | English | → | No | No | No |
| Basque | Spanish | → | No | No | No |
| Belarusian | Russian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Breton | French | → | No | No | No |
| Bulgarian | Macedonian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Danish | No | No | ← | No |
| Catalan | English | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Esperanto | → | No | No | No |
| Catalan | French | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Italian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Occitan | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Portuguese | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Romanian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Sardinian | ← | No | No | No |
| Catalan | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Chinese (Simplified) | English | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Chinese (Traditional) | English | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Crimean Tatar | Turkish | → | No | No | No |
| Czech | English | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Danish | English | No | No | ⇆ | → |
| Danish | Esperanto | No | No | → | No |
| Danish | Galician | No | No | → | No |
| Danish | German | No | No | ⇆ | No |
| Danish | Norwegian (Bokmål) | ⇆ | No | ⇆ | No |
| Danish | Portuguese | No | No | ← | No |
| Danish | Spanish | No | No | ⇆ | No |
| Danish | Swedish | ⇆ | No | ⇆ | No |
| Dutch | English | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Dutch | French | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Esperanto | ⇆ | No | → | No |
| English | Finnish | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | French | No | ← | No | ⇆ |
| English | Galician | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| English | German | No | ⇆ | No | ⇆ |
| English | Greek | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Hindi | No | No | No | ← |
| English | Hungarian | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Icelandic | ← | No | No | No |
| English | Italian | No | ← | No | ⇆ |
| English | Japanese | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Korean | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Latvian | No | No | No | ← |
| English | Lithuanian | No | ← | No | No |
| English | Macedonian | ← | No | No | No |
| English | Norwegian | No | No | ⇆ | ← |
| English | Persian | No | No | No | ← |
| English | Polish | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Portuguese | No | ← | ← | ⇆ |
| English | Romanian | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Russian | No | ← | No | ⇆ |
| English | Serbo-Croatian | ← | No | No | No |
| English | Slovak | No | No | No | ← |
| English | Slovene | No | No | No | ← |
| English | Spanish | ⇆ | ← | No | ⇆ |
| English | Swedish | No | No | ⇆ | ⇆ |
| English | Turkish | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Ukrainian | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| English | Welsh | ← | No | No | No |
| Esperanto | French | ← | No | No | No |
| Esperanto | Norwegian | No | No | ← | No |
| Esperanto | Portuguese | No | No | ← | No |
| Esperanto | Spanish | ← | No | No | No |
| Estonian | English | No | No | No | → |
| French | German | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| French | Italian | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| French | Occitan | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| French | Russian | No | ← | No | No |
| French | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | ⇆ |
| Galician | Portuguese | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Galician | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| German | Italian | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| German | Spanish | No | No | No | ⇆ |
| Hindi | Urdu | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Icelandic | Swedish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Indonesian | Malaysian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Italian | Sardinian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Italian | Spanish | No | No | No | ← |
| Kazakh | Tatar | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Macedonian | Serbo-Croatian | ← | No | No | No |
| North Sámi | Norwegian | → | No | No | No |
| Norwegian | Swedish | ⇆ | No | ⇆ | No |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Norwegian (Bokmål) | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Occitan | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Polish | Silesian | → | No | No | No |
| Portuguese | Spanish | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Romanian | Spanish | → | No | No | No |
| Russian | Ukrainian | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Serbo-Croatian | Slovene | ⇆ | No | No | No |
| Total (confirmed) | 83 | 9 | 24 | 63 | |
See also
- Machine translation
- Machine translation software usability
- Computer-assisted translation
- Comparison of computer-assisted translation tools
References
- ^ "Translations Made Simple: The Usefulness of Translation Apps". April 8, 2020. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ Remove FBI & Babylon Zombie Virus PCPitstop.com, author Steve Hogan, October 11, 2012
- ^ How To Uninstall The Babylon Toolbar Completely Martin Brinkmann, ghacks.net, August 17, 2011
- ^ "Watson Language Translator". www.ibm.com. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ language-translator-nodejs: Sample Node.js Application for the IBM Language Translation Service, Watson Developer Cloud, 2017-11-08, retrieved 2017-11-08
- ^ "Moses - Moses/Releases".
- ^ "Нейронные сети, офлайн-переводчики и конкуренция. Технологии машинного перевода". 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Language support | Cloud Translation". Google Cloud. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Language support - Translator - Azure AI services". learn.microsoft.com. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ "Languages supported". developers.deepl.com. 1 December 2025.
- ^ "Supported languages". yandex.com. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "What Is Amazon Translate? - Amazon Translate". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Languages". promt.com. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ^ "IBM Cloud Docs". cloud.ibm.com. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Apertium". wiki.apertium.org. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
External links
- Apertium wiki (list of language pairs and licence information)
- Xerox Easy Translator Service (list of language pairs)
- Bing Translator Language List
- Haitian Creole support in Bing/Microsoft Translator
- Microsoft Research: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT
- List of supported languages in Google Translate