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>You're better off using models specialized in translation

For a couple dozen languages, GPT-4 is by far the best translator you can get your hand on so basically no.

>>famous+(OP)
I will say that GPT-4 is just incredibly expensive. For my app I only use it for advanced translations/corrections, and usually a combination of GPT-3.5+Wiktionary is able to get the more simple stuff done

>>daniel+m6
> GPT-3.5+Wiktionary

Can you share more about your app and what you're doing?

>>all2+eh
Sure! I'm building a personalized AI language learning tutor using Open AI's API and ElevenLabs (for Text to Speech).

Right now it's basically a chat bot that you can use to practice conversing with. It provides corrections for the things you type. Eventually I'd like to try adding Whisper as well to allow users to speak out loud.

When you hover over a word, you get a translation. Initially I thought using Open AI for every word translation would be too much, but I've been able to get it down to ~36-40 tokens/request. (3-4 cents/1000 requests). I also began parsing and uploading some of this [Wiktionary data](https://kaikki.org/dictionary/rawdata.html) and am working on a feature that integrates the GPT-3.5 translation with this Wiktionary data.

A lot of these features are still in the works but you can feel free to try it if you like (https://trytutor.app).

>>famous+(OP)
What would be the best local standalone solution for translation model? Personal use, mostly self-education. 2 popular languages both ways (like en-spa, fr-ger). Free, pretrained off the github would be the best. I can try and train say 100M params LLM on 4090 RTX. But I'm not sure satisfactory result are achievable.