What is the form of the English input, and how much text is it roughly?
If long it could be somewhat expensive for API LLM, but also an
interesting use case for the capabilities of local LLMs.
I have experience with both, but not for specialized translations yet.
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Am 22.07.26 um 12:21 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
Folks,
While you can press a button in most web browsers to translate English
pages on the fly, due to the many musical and LilyPond-specific
technical terms there are inevitably flaws, that make the results
misleading. Such online translations also don't give you translated
PDF manuals.
I thus wonder whether a guy with LLM experience could help with
updating the German translation of the Notation Reference – or rather,
generating a complete translation from scratch, since the German
translation is severely outdated. Today, websites like Google
Translate provide translations (both German-to-English and
English-to-German) that are nearly perfect even for quite complicated
grammatical structures, which still amazes me.
This is intended as an experiment that could start with a few
chapters, say, to find out whether such an approach is feasible. Of
course, we would have to discuss the conditions for the LLM to get a
good result. In spite of the grammatical quality I expect that a lot
of technical terms will be mistranslated; we thus have to proofread
the results (I volunteer for that).
What do you think?
Werner
