OpenAI launches ChatGPT Translate to rival Google Translate

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web-based translation tool designed to compete directly with Google Translate. The new service supports translations in more than 50 languages and allows users to customise the style and tone of translated text, offering options such as more fluent, academic, or business-formal output.

The ChatGPT Translate's GUI has a similar look to Google Translate with two text boxes for inputting the original message and the translated message with drop-down menus for selecting languages. Nevertheless, the main priority of the ChatGPT Translate GUI revolves around context and style instead of media.

The text-based translation function is available only in the desktop version upon launch, while mobile browsers provide users with the capability to either type text for translation or convert voice into text for translation.

Unlike Google Translate, it appears that ChatGPT Translate does not currently support translations based upon images or websites, although promises of support in the future have been made on its homepage.

OpenAI has not released any corresponding app for the service on the mobile platform either, and it is unknown which artificial intelligence algorithm is used for translation purposes.

The translation function has been available within the main chatbot function of ChatGPT for a long time now, but this is the first time OpenAI is venturing into offering this functionality as a separate service. Through this functionality, ChatGPT Translate could prove to be a game-changer for those who want higher-level translations with the choice of tone and purpose through which translations are executed.