Translation software rating – ChatGPT or Google Translate?
Google Translate is fast and efficient for short phrases or simple texts, supports a wide range of languages, and provides good context-sensitive translations for common phrases and widely spoken languages. However, Google Translate can struggle with nuanced or complex text, idioms, and culturally specific expressions, and is less effective at maintaining a specific tone or style.
ChatGPT offers more nuanced translations, especially for idioms and creative content. It can tailor translations to a specific tone, style, or purpose (e.g., formal, informal, poetic). ChatGPT translation can explain translation suggestions or offer alternatives. However, it can be slower than Google for large or repetitive tasks and may not be as consistent as a dedicated translation engine for less commonly used language pairs.
Use Google Translate for quick and easy translations or for highly technical or direct text. ChatGPT is better suited for nuanced, creative, or translation tailored to a specific context or audience.
Translation software opportunities in 2025

Machine translation programs will be the most common in 2025 DeepL, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Amazon Translate and ChatGPT. All of these translation programs have both free versions and paid add-ons. Online translation programs vary in the number of languages and special features. Some of them offer image translation and features in different fields such as business, education, etc. Some machine translation programs also allow you to customize the translation style, hide inappropriate content, and other special features. See an overview of all translation programs.
Google Translate
Google Translate is a free Google service that instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages from English to more than 100 other languages and vice versa. On a computer, Google Translator, or Google's translation program, is very widely used and well-known to everyone. However, it is less common to know that there is also an iOS and Android application of the same name, which means that Translator is very easy to use on a smartphone or tablet. Read more on the Telia Digitark page.
Machine translation programs
Machine translation by the University of Tartu
Estonian machine translation engine created by researchers at the University of Tartu Neurotranslation is multilingual and can translate seven languages: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, English, German and Finnish. The purpose of a machine translation program is to automatically translate between different languages: from one language into, from another. But behind this lies a more complicated set of issues. “For example, translation depends on the field. Ordinary spoken language is translated one way, and formal speeches or technical manuals are translated another way,” comments Mark Fišel, head of the Department of Language Technology at the University of Tartu in an interview for the open data portal. “Some words have multiple meanings, for example, the English word “driver” can be a computer driver or a car driver. In the case of neurotranslation, we try to take into account the field of the text and translate accordingly.” The user can also choose in the program whether to translate colloquially or politely. Field-specific translation modules are also being developed for translation agencies.
The special feature of Neurotranslator machine translation is that it is multilingual and can translate seven languages: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, English, German and Finnish. The same trained model is used in all directions, which allows you to write sentences in mixed languages – for example, Estonian, German and English and translate it all into Latvian. The input language is not specified, only the output language is specified.
The University of Tartu's machine translation engine arsenal also includes 23 Finno-Ugric languages.
Tilde machine translation
Tilde develops neural network-based machine translation systems, LLM-based chatbots, as well as speech technologies thanks to the smart synergy of humans and artificial intelligence, and Tilde also offers professional localization services. Tilde's valued technologies help a wide user base from corporations to government agencies, businesses and individuals.
Tilde machine translation offers unlimited text translation, full document translation, and add-ons to enhance efficiency.
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