My first impression is that this is tough because Google Translate is free and many people think that is good enough.
Now I find myself using Google Translate because there is some text in French or Chinese that I want to read. There is another market for someone who has some text in English (say) and they want text in French or Chinese to put on their web page or fill out a government required form or something that has higher quality requirements in terms of being correct, good prose, etc. That person is either doing the work themselves, paying a translator, or not doing it because they can't afford it. I think that is the person you're trying to find.
I don't think you want to tell that person how it works (finding the best commercial LLM for the task) because if I think it is just sending the work out to some particular LLM couldn't they just use it themselves and cut you out?
To be clear, the main product is translating from English to the language you're learning - not the other way around - so that you immerse yourself while you browse.
The hybrid translator is kinda a side thing based on my research into LLM translation quality.
It's a bit more complicated than using the best LLM, because it combines the results of the best ones, but yeah, that's broadly how it works. I made that part open source, anyway - I'm not trying to sell the hybrid translator, just use it as a marketing tool.
But I guess this comes back to the fact that I think my landing page might explain it poorly. I'm just not sure how to explain "It finds English sentences in webpages, filters out so that it's only the ones at your difficulty level, then translates them into your target language, so you're immersed while you browse" in the form of a ultra-low-attention-span landing page.
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My first impression is that this is tough because Google Translate is free and many people think that is good enough.
Now I find myself using Google Translate because there is some text in French or Chinese that I want to read. There is another market for someone who has some text in English (say) and they want text in French or Chinese to put on their web page or fill out a government required form or something that has higher quality requirements in terms of being correct, good prose, etc. That person is either doing the work themselves, paying a translator, or not doing it because they can't afford it. I think that is the person you're trying to find.
I don't think you want to tell that person how it works (finding the best commercial LLM for the task) because if I think it is just sending the work out to some particular LLM couldn't they just use it themselves and cut you out?
To be clear, the main product is translating from English to the language you're learning - not the other way around - so that you immerse yourself while you browse.
The hybrid translator is kinda a side thing based on my research into LLM translation quality.
It's a bit more complicated than using the best LLM, because it combines the results of the best ones, but yeah, that's broadly how it works. I made that part open source, anyway - I'm not trying to sell the hybrid translator, just use it as a marketing tool.
But I guess this comes back to the fact that I think my landing page might explain it poorly. I'm just not sure how to explain "It finds English sentences in webpages, filters out so that it's only the ones at your difficulty level, then translates them into your target language, so you're immersed while you browse" in the form of a ultra-low-attention-span landing page.