1 minute to read - May 4, 2023

Historical language translation

ChatGPT can be used to translate historical documents, letters, and other texts from one language to another. This can help historians and researchers access and understand historical documents that may otherwise be difficult to interpret.

Historian: I'm working on a project to study the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, but many of them are written in French. Can you help me translate them into English?

ChatGPT: Yes, I can help with language translation. We can start by scanning the letters and using optical character recognition (OCR) to convert them into digital text. From there, we can use machine translation algorithms to translate the text from French to English. While the translation may not be perfect, it should be accurate enough to give you a sense of the content and context of the letters.

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