DeepL's first language expansion

Cologne, Germany, December 5th, 2018

DeepL today introduces the world’s best AI translation services for two of the most-spoken and most influential languages: Russian and Portuguese.

With the addition of Portuguese, the company is responding to thousands of requests from users around the world. Today, DeepL’s Portuguese translation service is tearing down the language barrier for a further 230 million people. The neural networks continuously train on millions of texts and can handle the nuances of the Portuguese language, with a wide vocabulary encompassing Brazilian and European Portuguese.

Russian is the first DeepL language to use a non-Latin script. The Cyrillic alphabet is no barrier to clear and accurate translations: DeepL Translator produces results beyond anything yet seen from Google or even Russian Internet giant Yandex. 260+ million Russian speakers have never had a more powerful tool to connect with the rest of the world.

To test system performance, DeepL Translator and the services of internet giants translated 500 sentences, which were then presented to professional translators. Just as with previous languages, DeepL Translator consistently achieved the highest quality ratings between Russian, Portuguese, and English.

These results further confirm that DeepL is the world leader in AI translation technology and continues to have its sights set on further development.

DeepL Translator now supports 72 language combinations between English, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Dutch. The neural networks are training to master further languages, including Mandarin and Japanese.

About DeepL

DeepL is a German company that has set itself the goal of eliminating language barriers worldwide through the use of artificial intelligence. Since 2017, it has provided DeepL Translator, a machine translation system that, according to blind tests, achieves the world's best translation quality, on www.DeepL.com. It also provides professional products for companies, organizations, and translators. 

The exceptional quality of DeepL's machine translation services is based on proprietary improvements that the team has achieved in neural network mathematics and methodology.

The company is led by CEO and founder Jaroslaw Kutylowski and supported by world-renowned investors such as Benchmark and b2venture.