Re: Asking for help: Update German translation of NR using LLM

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=20
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 =E2=80=93 or r=
ather,
> 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 translation is severely outdated.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