As the world becomes increasingly globalized, there is a great demand for efficient and accurate translation tools. The introduction of DeepL and GlobalLink provides businesses and individuals with online platforms to meet those needs. However, each program differs in its various features and benefits. With so many options available, it can be challenging to determine which tool is right for your business. So, which tool can help with your assignments? This article compares two popular tools designed for translation: DeepL and GlobalLink. It examines all the tools’ features and strengths while also exploring potential drawbacks.
DeepL: The Deep Dive
Overview
DeepL employs state-of-the-art machine translation technology to produce translations of an unparalleled quality. Since they launched in 2017, DeepL has quickly become the benchmark for new machine translation – delivering much improved linguistic accuracy compared to its predecessor, Linguee, and creating fluent, natural-sounding translations.
Key Features
High-power Neural Networks: DeepL achieves superior quality translations, more than matching many of our competitors with the help of the latest generation of neural networks.
Many other language pairs are supported. DeepL translates text into the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and many more! The text can either be typed into the browser or copied from another text.
Ease of Use: DeepL’s interface is intuitive and lets you translate text, documents and even entire websites. Everyone is excited about its ease of use: DeepL translates text, documents and even entire websites with just one click.
Any company can generate languages via its DeepL Pro subscription, which provides enhanced security, increased speed and an API to connect to other applications.
Advantages
Natural-sounding text: DeepL is often rated high for its ability to produce paraphrased, rather than word-for-word, translations.
Intuitive Interface: The platform has been designed to make it easy to use, ensuring no deal breaker for any type of netizen.
Price: At the deep learning backend, DeepL translates a piece of text to a few other languages simultaneously. Because this computational bottleneck is optimized, DeepL Pro is sold at only a slightly higher margin than competitors whereas its algorithms effectively solve the same problems. The benefit of this architecture is reflected in competitive pricing for consumers and businesses alike. As a consequence for other language companies, this increased efficiency creates an incentive to spend less on linguistic processing and more on machine learning.
Drawbacks
Fewer languages: DeepL supports more of the big languages than some competitors, but fewer overall.
Features Limited to Premium Subscription DeepL is a remarkable AI-powered tool, but some of its most impressive features, like multilingual translation, are reserved for DeepL Pro users.
GlobalLink: The Comprehensive Solution
Overview
GlobalLink is our comprehensive translation management system for companies with extensive translation needs, with tools and services for each step of the translation process – from content creation to publication.
Key Features
Translation Management: GlobalLink provides workflow automation, vendor management, and reporting features.
Integration: Integrates to CMS, marketing automation and other enterprise software.
Customisable Workflows: Users are able to create custom workflows to meet their desired translation and localisation processes.
Human translation service: Using GlobalLink, you also get access to a vast network of experienced and professional human translators that you can tap into to get translations that provide the desired nuance and quality.
Advantages
The GlobalLink suite is a flexible, feature-rich platform that acts as a one-stop solution for all the translation and localisation needs of your company. GlobalLink can be used to translate any type of assets, from basic webpage content to complex and connected multimedia projects.
Scalability: the cloud is designed to accommodate massive volumes of content for businesses with high translation needs.
Specialist Services: Professional Services provide access to translators with genuine professional training and experience. Professional-quality translations on professional-quality deadlines for expert topics are not possible without this
Drawbacks
Complexity: For smaller customers or those with simple translation requirements, the sheer number of options and features can be daunting.
Higher Cost: GlobalLink’s more extensive functionality is more expensive than others, which is a higher price barrier for some users.
DeepL vs. GlobalLink: A Direct Comparison
Translation Quality
DeepL: Known for its superior machine translation quality, especially for European languages.
GlobalLink: Bank of America’s translation platform, which it licenses from vendor SDL, is a popular automated translation platform. Though its machine translation is sophisticated, GlobalLink’s real power comes from combining automatic translation with top-level human translation services.
Ease of Use
DeepL: Offers a straightforward, user-friendly interface suitable for quick translations.
GlobalLink: A more ‘jet-fighter’ type interface with a steeper learning curve, reflective of its feature-rich ‘flexibility’.
Language Support
DeepL: Supports 32 languages, focusing primarily on widely spoken languages.
GlobalLink: provides larger language coverage, including translations into most less-common languages, thanks to its professional language provider network.
Pricing
DeepL: More affordable with competitive pricing for individual and business plans.
GlobalLink: More expensive, and you might infrequently use its vast array of features and privileged access to professional translators.
Conclusion
Ultimately, the choice between DeepL and GlobalLink comes down to the specific use-case. If you’re an individual that needs high-quality machine translation with a clean and usable interface, and at a competitive price, DeepL is a great option. If you’re a business that needs a powerful translation management system with enhanced integration options to get human-sounding translations at scale, dedicated project-management, and manual quality controls, GlobalLink is probably the better solution.
Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the technologies available can help you make an informed choice that matches the content you want to translate and your budget. Whether it’s DeepL or GlobalLink, their value propositions have one important aspect in common: they both help you make a smarter, better and more informed contribution to ‘Global English’ or your brand’s linguistic future, across cultures.