AIR dialect translation blind test claims win over Google Translate
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AIRSkip Inc. published the results of a blind test of dialect translation comparing its AIR Translate with Google Translate: across 118 comparison rounds, AIR Translate was preferred in 108 rounds, Google Translate in only 1, and the remaining 9 were ties. The test covered 11 country variants of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, and Chinese, comparing versions of both systems released on the same day; where Google had no corresponding country version, its closest version was used. The blind-test judge was Google Gemini 4 Argon at default settings, which saw two answers labeled A and B and judged which was more natural to local native speakers. A win was counted only when judgments in both orders agreed; otherwise it was counted as a tie. The above results are test conclusions published by AIRSkip and are not independently verified.
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AIR Translate reports 118 blind rounds across 11 country variants of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic and Chinese, judged by Google's Gemini 4 Argon, with AIR Translate preferred in 108, Google Translate preferred once and 9 ties. The company says five of the nine ties were Portuguese and four were sentences where both systems wrote identical words, and that across its four Spanish and two Arabic variants AIR Translate was preferred 67 times out of 68. It also notes Apple Translate offers no country versions of Spanish, Arabic, French or Portuguese, and publishes the full data and method.
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