#GoogleTranslate seems to be getting worse and worse, sometimes omitting entire sentences or ignoring meaningful words.

Hilariously, it also attempts to translate all-digits dates but then messes them up so they become a completely different date somehow. E.g. 2025-05-26 somehow becomes January 1996 🤷

#DeepL is going the other way, getting quite good now, even at more obscure stuff like blog posts with wordplay and spelling errors.

This observation is based mostly on Lithuanian/English examples.

#Translation

alcinnz
alcinnz boosted

Used Firefox web page translation feature for the first time. Up until now it was mostly annoyance due to drop down appearing on it's own (is there a setting to turn that off?).
The German website was translated seemingly well. Of course I can't verify, but since it was just a simple read, it was good.
One thing where it didn't work that well was initial cookie prompt, where it translated text, but not text on buttons, had to guess which one does what.

#Mozilla #Firefox #translation

Driving schools in the Chubu region have started using translation apps that recognize spoken words and automatically translate them into other languages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/30/japan/japan-driving-school-translation-apps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #translation #apps #driving #foreignworkers #nagoya #mie

A little reminder to everybody on climatejustice.social (but it similarly also applies to all Mastodon servers).

If you're posting mostly in one language, please go to https://climatejustice.social/settings/preferences/other and set your primary posting language, if you haven't yet. It does not have to be the same as your interface language.

While you're there you can also filter languages. If you select any of the languages in the list, then only posts in that or those languages will display in public timelines for you. This does not work if people set their posts to the wrong language though.

If you regularly switch languages, please try to make a habit of manually selecting the posting language every time.

Apart from the language filters, some other advantages of setting the correct language:
* climatejustice.social and many other servers have a built in translation function, but it only works if the language is set correctly (this is especially important for moderators - you'll be making our live a lot easier)
* Alt text is also translated, so for accessibility, please always write your alt text in the post's language
* trends are language specific. if you set your posts to the wrong language, you could be spamming the trends for that language
* your account is recommended to people based on the set language(s) of your posts, if your privacy settings allow account recommendation
* if someone follows you and you post in different languages and actually set them correctly every time, they can go to your profile and select which of your languages they wand to subscribe to

#language #accessibility #translation #mastodon#BestPractices

Mayel
Mayel boosted

🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language?

We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release!

No coding needed — just a love of words.

🔥 Join here: https://app.transifex.com/bonfire/bonfire/

P.S. You can also help by translating this very message and/or sharing it! The more communities we reach, the more accessible Bonfire becomes. 🌍💬

#Bonfire#Translation#Localization#FOSS#Fediverse