Lingvanex

AI translation service

Lingvanex is a neural machine translation service launched in March 2017 and owned by Nordicwise Limited, based in Larnaca.[1] Service support translation in 110 languages and can translate text, HTML and files. It offers website interface, API SDK, on-premise solutions and mobile apps for Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS. On-premise versions of Lingvanex can run on Microsoft Windows and Linux. The Lingvanex translation apps are offered free of charge with restrictions that can be removed with a paid subscription.

Lingvanex Translator
Logo lingvanex
Type of site
Neural machine translation
Available in110 languages
HeadquartersLarnaca, Cyprus
OwnerNordicwise Limited
Founder(s)Aliaksei Rudak
URLlingvanex.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched13 March 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-13)
Current statusActive

History change

On March 2017 the company Nordicwise Limited was established to offer machine translation services under Lingvanex business name.[2]

On January 2018, Lingvanex launched the first mobile apps for iOS and Android, intended for translation of the text, voice and web pages.

On May 2018 Lingvanex presented their solutions for neural machine translation on mobile phones at European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).

On April 2020, The translator is recognized by the authoritative publication Entrepreneur as a product, that may be exactly what you need[3]

On April 2020 Lingvanex application for team chat translation was featured by Slack as Brilliant Bot.[4]

On January 2021 Lingvanex application Phone Call Translator was awarded as Product Of Year in Audio and Video category by Product Hunt.[5][6]

On February 2021, Lingvanex won AWS AI Startup Challenge[7]

On June 2021, Lingvanex integrated machine translation feature into Vivaldi browser[8][9][10]

On October 2023, Lingvanex entered the top 10 best translation apps from English to Hindi according to MySmartPrice[11]

On October 2023, Opera for Android integrates Lingvanex translation service[12][13]

On February 2024, Lingvanex included in the list of the best Google Chrome extension translators according to Android Authority[14]

Technology change

For the translator, a sequence-to-sequence model is used, consisting of several layers, each of which includes an encoder and a decoder. Previous versions of Lingvanex used LSTM or GRU (simple recurrent network), attention layers, etc. The current version uses the so-called transformer architecture, when additional self-attention layers are inserted to connect recurrent and convolution networks.

Lingvanex used United Nations and European Parliament documents and transcripts to gather linguistic data and proprietory tool Data Studio to train language models. Most of the translations between language pairs are made via conversion to English as mediary first and then pivot to target language.

Languages change

References change

  1. "Lingvanex Reaches 2M Daily Translations, Seeks Capital to Fuel Growth". slator.com. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. "Reviews about Lingvanex on G2". g2.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  3. "This App is Like Having a Personal Translator by Your Side at All Times". entrepreneur.com. 25 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  4. "Lingvanex application was featured by Slack as Brilliant Bot". slack.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  5. "Phone Call Translator was awarded as Product Of Year in Audio and Video category". producthunt.com. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. "Lingvanex on Producthunt". producthunt.com. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  7. "Lingvanex won AWS AI Startup Challenge". vestbee.com. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  8. "Lingvanex integrated into Vivaldi browser". vivaldi.com. July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  9. "Vivaldi Translate powered by Lingvanex offers new ways to translate texts". www.prnewsblog.com. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  10. "The launch of Vivaldi Translate powered by Lingvanex". techcrunch.com. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. "10 Best English to Hindi translation apps and websites". mysmartprice.com. 14 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  12. "Opera for Android integrates Lingvanex translation service". opera.com. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  13. "Opera teams up with Lingvanex". multilingual.com. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  14. "The best translator Chrome extensions". androidauthority.com. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.