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Which AI tool translates best?

Google Translate for quick, free translation into Indian languages, Sarvam when you need Indian languages done well at scale, and DeepL or ChatGPT for documents in European languages. Google Translate is free, covers Kannada, Odia and the other major Indian languages, and translates whole documents. Sarvam's models were built in India: Mayura covers 10 Indian languages plus English, Kannada and Odia included, and Sarvam-Translate all 22 scheduled languages. DeepL now covers Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam and Punjabi but not Kannada or Odia, and a paid plan starts at EUR 7.49 a month billed yearly. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini translate well when you tell them the audience and give them a list of terms to keep. The rule: for anything legal, medical or public, have a fluent speaker check it before it goes out.

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Sarvam's translation models: mayura:v1 for Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and English, and sarvam-translate:v1 adding the rest of the 22 scheduled languages.

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