The State of Machine Translation 2023

Intento’s annual report with an independent multi-domain evaluation of Machine Translation Engines

MT Engines

Language pairs

Content Domains

MT Engines

Language pairs

Content Domains

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What‘s changed in the MT market since 2022

The MT market is growing: 48 vendors
MT covers 190K language pairs
23 best performing MT Engines
Large Language Models are in the 1st tier
Two domains require a careful MT choice
Two domains need customization

37 MT Engines evaluated

Including 5 Large Language Models from AI21, Anthropic, and OpenAI

22 language pairs, 9 content domains

Our datasets cover:

22 language pairs (English-to-Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Ukrainian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic)

9 content domains (General, Colloquial, IT, Entertainment, Hospitality, Education, Healthcare, Legal, and Financial)

“We launched our inaugural MT report in 2017, at a time when there were only eleven stock models available. Fast forward six years, and the MT landscape has exploded, with six-fold growth in MT platforms and 15x more language pairs. In addition, we see new automated customization possibilities such as domain adaptation and custom glossaries, and the emergence of Large Language Models, which can handle translation among other tasks.”

“We’re pleased to extend our expertise to drive exceptional MT evaluation results in the latest Intento report. The caliber of our lingosets (golden datasets) is backed by a talented force of translation and data scientists that have enabled e2f to partner with some of the top players in the localization and AI landscape. As a result, enterprises are attaining a new standard of excellence for conversational AI.”

The State of Machine Translation 2023

What‘s changed in the MT market since 2022

37 MT Engines evaluated

AI21

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud

Amazon

Anthropic

Apptek

Baidu

Cloud Translation

COTOHA (NTT)

DeepL

Elia

Globalese

Google Cloud

IBM Watson

Kawamura by NICT

Microsoft

ModernMT

Mirai

Naver

NiuTrans

NVIDIA

OpenAI

Oracle

Pangeanic

PROMT

RoyalFlush Finance

SAP

SYSTRAN

TartuNLP

Tencent Cloud

Tilde

TREBE

Ubiqus

Yandex

Youdao