Luis Damián Moreno García (PhD, FHEA)
Here is a brief review of Lara, a new machine translation tool (currently in beta). According to Translated, the company behind Lara, it is a “machine translation system that utilizes the most advanced and state-of-the-art AI technologies to deliver the best and most trustworthy translations to its users.”
Lara has been classified as a AI Translation system trained on “25 million real-world translations by top professional translators”, as well as on “machine-generated translations reviewed and refined by professional translators, capturing errors, corrective feedback, and reasoning during disagreements”. This dataset supports its decision-making processes when dealing with wording, phrasing, and tone.
Translated currently offers 4 plans: Free (the one I tested), Pro, Team and Enterprise. The Free plan gives you 5,000 characters per day, the Pro plan 1 million, and the Team plan unlimited quota. The Enterprise plan is devised for company-level use.
One of the main selling points of Lara is the combination of two tools: machine translation and LLM chatbots. Through a purple textbox under the target text, Lara shares its doubts, explains its choices, asks for clarifications, or just positively asserts itself when it thinks it got the translation right.
