How to switch between Machine Translation Engines

This articles describes how a user can change their machine translation engines.

Switching Between Machine Translation Engines with Pairaphrase

Pairaphrase provides several translation engines; AWS, DeepL, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, at the time of this article.  Google and Microsoft provide a similar experience and produce the fastest translations. They are ideal for many translation needs and offer the deepest language growth. Both support many endangered languages as well.

AWS and DeepL use dynamic machine learning to produce translations. It will insert your terminology directly into your translations. It's ideal for users that want to produce custom translations that require little post-editing. These engines require the development of glossaries and/or translation memories and may take longer to produce translations.

Pairaphrase makes switching between translation engines easy. To switch between machine translation engines navigate to your User Profile page by clicking on your name (or My Account) in the upper righthand part of your screen.

Navigate to user profile screen

This will take you to your User Profile page. Click on Translation Engine on the left-hand sidebar.

Navigate to translation engine screen

This will take you to the Translation Engine page, click on the button to choose the translation engine you want to use. Now you're ready to start translating.

Choose translation engine screen

Pairaphrase provides several translation engines; AWS, DeepL, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, at the time of this article.  Google and Microsoft provide a similar experience and produce the fastest translations. AWS and DeepL use dynamic machine learning to produce translations. It will insert your terminology directly into your translations and may take longer. Switching between translation engines is fast and simple.

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