Machine translation is an algorithm which attempts to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.
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 |
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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 | 3.4.2 | 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) | 10.3 | No | Prompts to install the Babylon Toolbar, a browser hijacker which is difficult to remove.[2][3] | ||
DeepL | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required, paid "Pro" version available | No | [2] | 30+ | Neural machine translation | |
Google Translate | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [3] | 100+ | Statistical and neural machine translation | |
GramTrans | Cross-platform (web application) | Freeware | No fee required | ? | No | [4] | Rule-based, using constraint grammar | |
IBM Watson | Cross-platform | SaaS | Free, commercial (varies by plan) | 3.0 | No | 50+ | 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 | Final | No | [5] | 100+ | 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. | ||
NiuTrans | Cross-platform | GPL | No fee required | 1.1.0 | Yes | 300+ | 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 | [6] | 20+ | Hybrid, rule-based, statistical and neural machine translation[7] |
SYSTRAN | Cross-platform (web application) | Proprietary software | $200 (desktop) – $15,000 and up (enterprise server) | Version 7 | No | [7] | 50+ | Hybrid, rule-based, statistical machine translation and neural machine translation |
Yandex.Translate | Cross-platform (web application) | SaaS | No fee required | No | [8] | 90+ | Statistical and neural machine translation |
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.
Language | Language code | In ICU? | Google Translate[8] | Microsoft Translator[9] | Yandex Translate[10] | Amazon Translate[11] | IBM Watson[12] | DeepL Translate |
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Afrikaans | af | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Albanian | sq | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Amharic | am | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Arabic | ar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Armenian | hy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Assamese | as | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Aymara | ay | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Azerbaijani | az | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Bambara | bm | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Bashkir | ba | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Basque | eu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Belarusian | be | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Bengali | bn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Bhojpuri | bho | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Bodo | brx | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Bosnian | bs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Bulgarian | bg | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Burmese | my | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Cantonese (Traditional) | yue or zh-Hant-HK | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Catalan | ca | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Cebuano | ceb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Chewa (Chichewa/Nyanja) | ny | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans-CN | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant-TW | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Chuvash | cv | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Classical Chinese | lzh | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Corsican | co | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Croatian | hr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Czech | cs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Danish | da | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dari | fa-AF | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Dhivehi | dv | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Dogri | doi | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Dutch | nl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Elvish (Sindarin) | sjn | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
English | en | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Esperanto | eo | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Estonian | et | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ewe | ee | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Faroese | fo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Fijian | fj | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Finnish | fi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
French | fr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
French (Canada) | fr-CA | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Galician | gl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Georgian | ka | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
German | de | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Greek | el | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Guarani | gn | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Gujarati | gu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Haitian Creole | ht | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Hausa | ha | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Hawaiian | haw | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Hebrew | he | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Hill Mari | mrj | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Hindi | hi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Hmong (Daw) | hmn or mww | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Hungarian | hu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Icelandic | is | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Igbo | ig | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Ilocano | ilo | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Indonesian | id | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Inuinnaqtun | ikt | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Inuktitut | iu | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Irish | ga | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Italian | it | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Japanese | ja | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Javanese | jv | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Kannada | kn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Kashmiri | ks | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Kazakh | kk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Khmer | km | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Kinyarwanda | rw | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Kirundi (Rundi) | rn | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Klingon | tlh | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Konkani | kok | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Korean | ko | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Krio | kri | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Kurdish (Kurmanji) | ku | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Kurdish (Sorani) | ckb | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Kyrgyz | ky | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Lao | lo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Latin | la | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Latvian | lv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Lingala | ln | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Lithuanian | lt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Lower Sorbian | dsb | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Luganda | lg | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Luxembourgish | lb | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Macedonian | mk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Maithili | mai | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Malagasy | mg | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Malay | ms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Malayalam | ml | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Maltese | mt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Māori | mi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Marathi | mr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Meadow Mari | mhr | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Meitei (Manipuri) | mni-Mtei | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Mizo | lus | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Mongolian | mn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Montenegrin | cnr | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Nepali | ne | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Northern Sotho (Sepedi) | nso | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Norwegian (Bokmål) | nb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Odia (Oriya) | or | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Oromo | om | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Papiamento | pap | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Pashto | ps | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Persian | fa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Polish | pl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portuguese | pt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Punjabi | pa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Quechua | qu | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Queretaro Otomi | otq | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Romanian | ro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Russian | ru | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Samoan | sm | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Sanskrit | sa | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Scottish Gaelic | gd | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Serbian | sr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Shona | sn | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Sindhi | sd | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Sinhala (Sinhalese) | si | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Slovak | sk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Slovene | sl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Somali | so | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Sotho | st | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Spanish | es | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Sundanese | su | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Swahili | sw | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Swedish | sv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Tagalog (Filipino) | fil or tl | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Tahitian | ty | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Tajik | tg | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Tamil | ta | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Tatar | tt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Telugu | te | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Thai | th | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Tibetan | bo | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Tigrinya | ti | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Tongan | to | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Tsonga | ts | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Tswana | tn | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Turkish | tr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Turkmen | tk | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Twi | tw | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Udmurt | udm | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Ukrainian | uk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Upper Sorbian | hsb | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Urdu | ur | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Uyghur | ug | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Uzbek | uz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Vietnamese | vi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Welsh | cy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
West Frisian | fy | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Xhosa | xh | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Yakut | sah | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Yiddish | yi | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Yoruba | yo | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Yucatec Maya | yua | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Zulu | zu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Total (confirmed) | 127 | 133 | 129 | 98 | 75 | 57 | 30 |
Language | Apertium[13] | OpenLogos | GramTrans | SYSTRAN | IdiomaX | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
To English | Arabic to English | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Catalan to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Chinese (Simplified) to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Chinese (Traditional) to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Czech to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Danish to English | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
Dutch to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Esperanto to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Estonian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Finnish to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
French to English | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
Galician to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
German to English | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
Greek to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Hindi to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Hungarian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Irish to English | No | No | No | No | No | |
Italian to English | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
Japanese to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Korean to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Latvian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Lithuanian to English | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Macedonian to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Maltese to English | No | No | No | No | No | |
Norwegian to English | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
Persian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Polish to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Portuguese to English | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
Romanian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Russian to English | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Serbo-Croatian to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Slovak to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Slovene to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Spanish to English | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
Swedish to English | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
Turkish to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Ukrainian to English | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Welsh to English | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Language | Apertium | OpenLogos | GramTrans | SYSTRAN | IdiomaX | |
To Chinese (Simplified) | English to Chinese (Simplified) | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
To Chinese (Traditional) | English to Chinese (Traditional) | No | No | No | Yes | No |
To Crimean Tatar | Turkish to Crimean Tatar | Yes | No | No | No | No |
To Dutch | English to Dutch | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No |
French to Dutch | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
To French | English to French | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
German to French | No | ? | No | Yes | No | |
Spanish to French | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Catalan to French | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Russian to French | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Dutch to French | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Italian to French | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
Breton to French | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Galician | English to Galician | Yes | ? | No | No | No |
Portuguese to Galician | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Spanish to Galician | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To German | English to German | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
French to German | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Spanish to German | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
Russian to German | No | No | No | No | No | |
Italian to German | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
To Italian | English to Italian | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Spanish to Italian | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
French to Italian | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
German to Italian | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | |
To Japanese | English to Japanese | No | No | No | Yes | No |
To Korean | English to Korean | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
To Portuguese | English to Portuguese | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
To Russian | English to Russian | No | No | No | Yes | No |
French to Russian | No | No | No | No | No | |
Spanish to Russian | No | No | No | No | No | |
German to Russian | No | No | No | No | No | |
Italian to Russian | No | No | No | No | No | |
To Spanish | Catalan to Spanish | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
English to Spanish | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
Russian to Spanish | No | No | No | No | No | |
French to Spanish | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
German to Spanish | No | ? | No | Yes | No | |
Italian to Spanish | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | |
Romanian to Spanish | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
To Welsh | English to Welsh | No | No | No | No | No |
Language | Apertium | OpenLogos | GramTrans | SYSTRAN | IdiomaX | |
To Arabic | English to Arabic | No | No | No | Yes | No |
To Catalan | English to Catalan | Yes | ? | No | No | No |
French to Catalan | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Italian to Catalan | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Occitan to Catalan | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Spanish to Catalan | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Czech | English to Czech | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
German to Czech | No | No | No | No | No | |
To Danish | English to Danish | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
To Esperanto | Catalan to Esperanto | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Danish to Esperanto | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
English to Esperanto | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
French to Esperanto | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Spanish to Esperanto | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Finnish | English to Finnish | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
To Greek | English to Greek | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
To Haitian Creole | English to Haitian Creole | No | No | No | No | No |
To Hebrew | English to Hebrew | No | No | No | No | No |
To Hungarian | English to Hungarian | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
To Norwegian (Bokmål) | English to Norwegian (Bokmål) | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
Norwegian (Nynorsk) to Norwegian (Bokmål) | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Norwegian (Bokmål) to Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
To Occitan | Catalan to Occitan | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Spanish to Occitan | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Polish | English to Polish | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
German to Polish | No | No | No | No | No | |
To Romanian | English to Romanian | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
To Serbo-Croatian | English to Serbo-Croatian | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
To Slovene | English to Slovene | No | No | No | No | No |
German to Slovene | No | No | No | No | No | |
To Swedish | English to Swedish | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
To Turkish | English to Turkish | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Crimean Tatar to Turkish | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
To Ukrainian | English to Ukrainian | No | ? | No | Yes | No |
Total (confirmed) | 28 | 9 | 15 | 65 | 59 |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison of machine translation applications.
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