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Machine Translated Recipes?

1 pointsby guest__useralmost 6 years ago
Hello<p>As an American living overseas, I am constantly having to translate cooking recipes ( temperature, weight, volumes) although there are calculators for this type of thing (the weight in grams of one cup of flour is different for example than one cup of sugar) I haven&#x27;t found anything that will just do it in bulk, or for a whole recipe. I realize that it&#x27;s kind of small potatoes (!) compared to other applications but I was wondering<p>1) does something like this exist?<p>2) how easy would it be to make ?<p>Thanks

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Piskvorrralmost 6 years ago
1) not really, machine translation still sucks in general, because 2) there&#x27;s no context awareness beyond grammar. This is realistically fixable for formal units (°F, grams), unlikely for informal units (as you note, &quot;of course a cup is X units of Y, everyone knows that!&quot;), and completely broken by ingredients (cooking from US and French and Polish flour, by the same recipe, yields a completely different result - highly unexpected!)