Tolayda vs ChatGPT and Claude

Chatbots translate a paragraph. We translate the whole paper.

General AI chat tools can be helpful, and many students already use them to translate. But when the text is a whole thesis or paper, you need something more. Here's how Tolayda handles entire papers, not just snippets.

You're in control

No more arguing with a chatbot ten times to fix one paragraph.

Every section of your paper is yours to check and change, right there beside the original.

Click any English paragraph and fix the wording yourself.
Retranslate just one section, as often as you like, for free.
Sections that may be incomplete are flagged for review, so you know exactly where to look.
Every change is saved and recorded in the edit history.

Conversion increased with copper loading, while selectivity fell slightly above 3%.

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Độ chọn lọc giảm nhẹ khi hàm lượng đồng vượt quá 3%.

Translation may be incomplete for this section. Try re-uploading or export and review carefully.

Translate this paragraph →

Retranslating section…Section retranslated

Six ways a chatbot lets your paper down.

The problem

It runs out of room

Chat tools can only read and write so much in one go. So you paste your chapter in chunks, and then paste the next one, and the next.

Answers that stop halfway through
Sentences lost where the chunks meet
An hour of copying and pasting before you've read a word

A chatbot, illustrated

Translate this chapter into English: [9,400 words pasted]

Here is the translation of the first part of your chapter: “2.1 Materials and methods… [response stops]

It stops partway. You paste the rest in pieces.

Tolayda

Upload the whole file

Every heading, paragraph, caption and table cell is translated as its own section, in order, and you can see each one beside its original.

New translation

Drop your manuscript here

or click to browse

luan-van-chuong-3.docx

Click or drop to replace

DOCX up to 50 MBPDF up to 50 MBTeX up to 2 MB

Source languageVietnamese ▾

Start translation

The problem

Your formatting disappears

You get plain text back, and spend a whole evening rebuilding headings, tables and figure captions in Word. Then you spot one you missed.

Tables flattened into lines of text
Headings, numbering and captions gone
Footnotes and equations mangled

A chatbot, illustrated

Keep the table exactly as it is, please.

Table 1 Cu loading (%) Conversion (%) Selectivity (%) 1 42 91 3 67 88

Your table, as one line of text.

Tolayda

Your document, in English

Word comes back as Word and LaTeX as LaTeX. A PDF comes back as a Word file with its figures.

ENGLISH · EDITABLE

Table 1. Conversion by copper loading

Cu loading (%)	Conversion (%)	Selectivity (%)
1	42	91
3	67	88
5	74	83

Demonstration paper.

The problem

Citations and maths get touched

A chatbot will “helpfully” reword a reference, tidy a citation or change an equation, and it won't tell you it did.

Authors and years quietly changed
Citation numbers out of order
Equations rewritten in plain words

A chatbot, illustrated

…was calculated as TOF = n_prod / (n_Cu · t).

…was calculated as the amount of product divided by the copper used over time.

Your equation, rewritten in words.

Tolayda

Equations locked, citations in plain sight

Equations are swapped for protected markers that must come back exactly as they went in, in Word, PDF and LaTeX. In a LaTeX paper, citations, references and links are locked the same way, as chips that can't be deleted by accident. In Word, every citation sits right beside the original, so you can check each one at a glance.

ENGLISH · EDITABLE.tex paper

Classical methods rely on stoichiometric oxidants that generate toxic waste [cite]. The turnover frequency was calculated as

\mathrm{TOF} = \frac{n_{\mathrm{prod}}}{n_{\mathrm{Cu}} \cdot t}

Formulas, citations and references can't be deleted or copied here. Your last change was undone.

The problem

Terms drift between chapters

The same technical term comes out three different ways across 80 pages. You won't spot it at 2am. Your examiner will.

A new chat forgets the words you agreed
Your field's terms swapped for everyday ones
Hours spent hunting for inconsistencies

A chatbot, illustrated

Chapter 5 now, same as before please.

…the metal content was varied… (chapter 2 said “metal loading”)

Same term, different English.

Tolayda

Your glossary, every time

Add your field's terms once, or import a CSV. They're used whenever you translate from that language, in every paper you upload.

Glossary

Translate from Vietnamese ▾ into English

3 termsImport CSVExport CSV

Vietnamese	English
ceri oxit	cerium oxide	Remove
hàm lượng kim loại	metal loading	Remove
tâm hoạt động	active site	Remove

The problem

No record for academic integrity

If you're asked how you used AI, a messy chat log is hard to explain. Which words were translated, and which did the chatbot rewrite?

No record of what changed, or when
Translation and rewriting blur together
Nothing to show your supervisor

A chatbot, illustrated

Make this sound more academic.

Sure! Here's a polished, more academic version of your paragraph…

Translated or rewritten? There's no record.

Tolayda

A full edit history

Every change is attributed and timestamped, and retranslations are marked. Share a locked, read-only copy with your supervisor.

The problem

Your unpublished research leaves the building

Pasting a chapter into a chatbot sends your unpublished work to a large AI company's servers, often outside the UK. Depending on your settings, it can be kept and used to train their future models. That's your ideas out of your hands before you've published them, which is why many universities warn against it.

Stored on someone else's servers
Possibly used to train future models
Hard to take back once it's sent

A chatbot, illustrated

Here's my unpublished chapter, can you translate it?

Of course! Please paste the full text below.

And now it's on their servers.

Tolayda

Translated on UK hardware

Tolayda translates your paper in the UK. It is never sent to OpenAI, Google or any other AI company. Opt out of training any time. Cyber Essentials certified.

Chatbots vs Tolayda

	ChatGPT, Claude and other chatbots	Tolayda
Long documents	Paste in chunks and stitch the answers back together	Upload the whole file. Every section is translated, in order
Formatting	Plain text back; rebuild your headings and tables by hand	Word and LaTeX come back with the structure in place
Equations and citations	Can be reworded, renumbered or dropped	Equations locked in every format, LaTeX citations too; the rest checkable side by side
Your field's terms	Drift from chapter to chapter	Your glossary is used whenever you translate from that language
Checking the result	Hard to spot a skipped or summarised sentence	Original and English side by side, section by section
Academic integrity	No record of what the AI wrote and what you did	Edit history: every change attributed and timestamped
Where your paper goes	To a large AI company's servers	Translated in the UK; never sent to another AI company

When a chatbot is the right tool

Translating an email, a short quote or a single abstract you'll check by eye? A chatbot is fine. Tolayda is for the documents that have to hold together: theses, dissertations, reports and papers you're submitting.

Questions

Can't I just ask ChatGPT to keep the formatting?

A chat tool can only answer in text. However carefully it is asked, Word headings, table cells and figure captions have to be put back by hand. Tolayda reads the document's structure and rebuilds it in the file you export.

Is Tolayda better at translation than ChatGPT or Claude?

Tolayda is built for one job: academic papers going into English, read beside the original. The difference you notice is everything around the translation: the whole file, the structure kept, equations protected, your glossary applied, and every section there to check.

When should I use a chatbot instead?

For an email, a short quote, or an abstract you will check by eye, a chatbot is fine. Tolayda is for the documents that have to hold together.

Is my paper used to train AI?

Your paper is never sent to OpenAI, Google or any other AI company. Papers may help improve Tolayda's own model, and you can opt out any time in Account › Preferences.

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