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With ChatGPT, it is possible to translate texts with a simple command. The AI tool from OpenAI understands different languages and helps you with the translation. How good the result is depends on various factors.
Translating texts with ChatGPT has advantages and disadvantages
The free tool ChatGPT is able to communicate in and translate many different languages. These include English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Hindi, among others.
- Although ChatGPT was mainly trained to provide answers in English, the tool is multilingual and can handle a total of 95 languages. In addition to the “world languages”, less common languages such as various Indian and Indonesian dialects, Persian, Bengali, Urdu or Welsh are also available.
- However, the translation accuracy is better for some languages than for others and there may be problems – especially when interpreting cultural terms and linguistic peculiarities.
- The accuracy of the translation also depends on the quality and quantity of the trained data and the difficulty of the text.
- To get a quick translation of a text and/or understand the content, ChatGPT is generally a good option. For professional use, the translation feature is not yet sufficient. This is especially true if you translate languages that you do not speak yourself.
- For error-free text translation in the professional field, you should therefore continue to rely on human rather than artificial intelligence.
How to translate with ChatGPT
There is no set limit to the length of text you can translate with ChatGPT. However, ChatGPT has been trained on shorter text sequences. Therefore, too many words can be problematic because the bot does not understand the context, for example.
- To translate text, you don’t need long commands. Write down your request followed by the text to be translated. It goes like this:
- Translate this text into Spanish: Although ChatGPT was mainly trained to provide answers in English, the tool is multilingual and can handle a total of 95 languages. Besides
- ChatGPT will now translate into the language you have chosen. If the desired language selection is not available, the chatbot will inform you.
- Translate this text into Spanish: Although ChatGPT was mainly trained to provide answers in English, the tool is multilingual and can handle a total of 95 languages. In addition to the “world languages”, less common languages such as various Indian and Indonesian dialects, Persian, Bengali, Urdu or Welsh are also available.
- Good to know: Translations of websites by entering a URL are not possible because ChatGPT is not connected to the internet.
