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

Hello Werner, hello everybody,

This is a very interesting question, and I have read the replies with
great interest. I admit that in this context I am sceptical that a LLM
will be of much use taking into account that very probably you will
have to proofread everything anyway.

In my opinion it is (at least in such a special case as the NR) still
the best approach to have a human German native speaker with a solid
musical background and knowledge do a new translation based on the
English NR as a reference. It is a huge task anyway.

If it would be welcome, I would volunteer to do at least part of this.
I am a retired professional musician who has used LilyPond a lot in the
course of the years, and like that I could give something back to the
community.

What do you think?=20

Best=20

Hajo



Am Mittwoch, dem 22.07.2026 um 10:21 +0000 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> Folks,
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> 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.=C2=A0 Such online translations also don't give you translated
> PDF manuals.
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> I thus wonder whether a guy with LLM experience could help with
> updating the German translation of the Notation Reference =E2=80=93 or
> rather,
> generating a complete translation from scratch, since the German
> translation is severely outdated.=C2=A0 Today, websites like Google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.
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> This is intended as an experiment that could start with a few
> chapters, say, to find out whether such an approach is feasible.=C2=A0 Of
> course, we would have to discuss the conditions for the LLM to get a
> good result.=C2=A0 In spite of the grammatical quality I expect that a lo=
t
> of technical terms will be mistranslated; we thus have to proofread
> the results (I volunteer for that).
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> What do you think?
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> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Werner

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