"A young cavalryman rides alone through summer woods. He is looking for the enemy and hoping not to find him…"
That is War, published by Jack London in 1911, one of the shortest complete things he ever wrote, and one of the most efficient.
So why did we choose it? Because it is short enough that you can read all of it here and judge how machine translation of books works. You can find examples of individual paragraphs or extracts translated, but we decided to translate a whole book.
We took the English original from Project Gutenberg's edition of The Night-Born and pulled out only the text of the story, then packaged those 23 paragraphs into a new EPUB 3 book.
Then we translated that book with AI ebook Translator into Hungarian, Slovenian and Serbian — in literary mode, as always.
Nothing below has been touched by a human afterwards. No post-editing, no cleanup, and no review by a native speaker of any of the three languages. If a sentence is clumsy, it is clumsy in the output. That is the whole point of this publication.
Jack London died in 1916, so the original is in the public domain everywhere.
Switch between the original and the three translations with the buttons at the top. Compare puts any two of them together, keeping the pages in the same position, so you can follow one paragraph across two languages without losing your place. The page-layout control decides how many columns of text you get: one book in two columns, or — in compare mode — two books side by side. The download button gives you the exact EPUB you are reading.
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Before you judge it
These are machine translations, and they are published unedited on purpose. This is a demonstration of what the service produces.
Hungarian, Slovenian and Serbian are morphologically rich, which is exactly why it is interesting to see how the system copes and where it slips. If you read one of these three languages natively and something here is wrong, we would be glad to hear about it.
